“Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself.” —Herman Melville in Moby Dick
“Bear in mind that it is not the man who reviles or strikes you that insults you, but it is your judgement that these men are insulting you. Therefore, when someone irritates you, be assured that it is your own opinion which has irritated you.” - Epictetus, Enchiridion 20 (trans. W.A. Oldfather).
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
“You can kill a man. You can shoot him in the neck on stage. You can spill his blood for the whole world to see, but you cannot kill the cause—especially when that cause is nothing other than love of God, love of country, love of family. That cause is truth. You cannot kill the truth.” - Matt Walsh
If you’re an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is wide open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men. ~ Grace Hartigan
"It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it" – Upton Sinclair
"Your too much attention makes a donkey feel like a lion. The truth is, some people don’t grow stronger — they just get louder when we keep feeding them our focus."
" Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. " -- Harvey Fierstein
''The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.'' -Ernest Hemingway
" Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. " -- Harvey Fierstein
"Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution." -Alexander Hamilton
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist - Oscar Wilde
' I wish I could punish you with longing ' by Novy Svet's Punished With Longing is beautiful to me
“Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.1, trans. George Long.
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" - Stalin
" Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. " --Soren Kierkegaard
" The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. " -Ernest Hemingway
"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence" - José Olivarez
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl