Kaia Hirsch > Kaia's Quotes

“We have the best government money can buy.”
― Mark Twain

“When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence.”
― Mark Twain

“If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.”
― Kevin Alfred Strom

“The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality as much as the honesty. Possibly more.”
― Richard Needham

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”
― golda meir

“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. KNOWING A MAN WELL NEVER LEADS TO HATE and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. TRY TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER!”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

“People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.”
― Hélène Cixous

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Now is the time for guts and guile”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

“What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.”
― C.G. Jung

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a moustrap.”
― Albert Einstein

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
― Ayn Rand

“The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.”
― Arundhati Roy

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984