Brooke Bida > Brooke's Quotes

“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.”
― P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
― Benjamin Franklin

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
― Robert Frost

“The only drink I like ice in is water, because you can’t water down water. I’m like that with love, too. Don’t you dare add any ice to the hot liquid loving I’m trying to pour all over you.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.
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― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Failure is Impossible”
― Susan B. Anthony

“You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.”
― ram dass

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.”
― ram dass

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”
― ram dass

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”
― ram dass

“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
― Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
― Ram Dass

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”
― ram dass

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

“What's meant to be will always find a way”
― Trisha Yearwood

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
― ram dass

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”
― ram dass