Ideas

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." - William Faulkner ...

"Man is kind enough when he’s not excited by religion, but once the holy holies have got a grip on him he’s capable of almost anything. When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the ...

"You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no ...

"Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?" - Friedrich Nietzsche ...

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - E.F. Schumacher ...

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” - Sydney J. Harris ...

“If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy." - Ralph Ellison ...

"Truth has a power of its own....A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think." - Howard Zinn ...

"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach." - Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

"Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous." - Albert Einstein ...