Miscellaneous Quotes

• There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

• Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.

• Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

• I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

• The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'

• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

• There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

• A kiss may ruin a human life.

• Yet each man kills the thing he loves, from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

• To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

• It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

• We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

• Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

• Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

• If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

• The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

• In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

• Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

• As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

• As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

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