Famous Quotes and Quotations

If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.
-Robert Kaplan

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-William Faulkner

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the right of minorities.
– Franklin D. Rosevelt

It is more difficult to crash an atom, than a prejudice.
– Albert Einstein

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority;
the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.
– Ralph W. Sockman

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
-Beca Lewis Allen

If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
- Howard Zinn

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
-Richard L Evans

Today’s Quote
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.
-Maya Angelou

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very [...]

Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.
-Unknown

It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe – though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now. Because it’s in the past; because we have survived.
– Susan Sontag

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
– Saul Bellow

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.-Douglas Jerrould