yes again
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a
diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most
self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other
nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
Henry James
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.
Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make
you an American.
Malcolm X
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition.
But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who
cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an
electric typewriter?
Woody Allen
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you
can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What
do you want, an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Laurence J. Peter
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
Virgil
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too
late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally
corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in
writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
Ovid
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in
vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Voltaire
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with
his freedom.
Bob Dylan
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like
everybody else.
Umberto Eco
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
Barbara Hall
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're
a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Justice delayed, is justice denied.
William Gladstone
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both
sides of the same side.
Anonymous
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Will Rogers
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a
diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most
self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other
nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
Henry James
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.
Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make
you an American.
Malcolm X
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition.
But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who
cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an
electric typewriter?
Woody Allen
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you
can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What
do you want, an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Laurence J. Peter
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
Virgil
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too
late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally
corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in
writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
Ovid
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in
vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Voltaire
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with
his freedom.
Bob Dylan
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like
everybody else.
Umberto Eco
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
Barbara Hall
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're
a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Justice delayed, is justice denied.
William Gladstone
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both
sides of the same side.
Anonymous
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
Martin Luther King Jr.