Meg > Meg 's Quotes

“Be Disloyal. It's your duty to the human race. The human race needs to survive and it's the loyal man who dies first from anxiety or a bullet or overwork. If you have to earn a living...and the price they make you pay is loyalty, be a double agent--and never let either of the two sides know your real name.”
― Graham Greene, A Sense of Reality and Other Stories

“Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.”
― Mary Crow Dog , Lakota Woman

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Resistance is its own reward.”
― Haunani-Kay Trask, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“We're all a bit of a dick. It's the human condition. Nothing to be afraid of.”
― Steve Coogan

“Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!”
― Hiromu Arakawa

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

“Being free always involves being lonely.”
― Kōbō Abe

“There is no half-measure--NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition”
― Mina Loy

“As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
― Susan Sontag

“Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course—arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it’s hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.”
― Tony Kushner

“Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.”
― Ani DiFranco

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.”
― George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, Volume 4 1945-1950

“You did not have to like it because you understood it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

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

“Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?”
― George Gordon Byron, Manfred

“Let the good get even.”
― Chuck D, Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports

“I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Resistance by its very nature demands that we choose choices not offered to us.”
― Longfellow

“Hope lies in a genuine embracing and nurturing of one's neurosis”
― Chris Niebauer Phd, The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left-Brain Plays Unending Games of Self-Improvement

“Hatred of oppression still distorts the features,
Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly.
Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness,
Could never be friendly ourselves.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Poems 1913-1956

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“In order for ethnology to live, its object must die; by dying, the object takes its revenge for being 'discovered' and with its death defies the science that wants to grasp it.”
― Jean Baudrillard