Quotes - Kenny O'Connor (Hoogezand, 04, Netherlands) Showing 1-30 of 193

#1

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

2283 likes

#2

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

tags: activism

8926 likes

#3

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

519 likes

#4

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16126 likes

#5

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10877 likes

#6

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7617 likes

#7

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

2245 likes

#8

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

23444 likes

#9

“A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

122 likes

#10

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

8865 likes

#11

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

8917 likes

#12

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
― James Baldwin

720 likes

#13

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

10714 likes

#14

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

4758 likes

#15

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

2724 likes

#16

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

1708 likes

#17

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

1561 likes

#18

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

417 likes

#19

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

706 likes

#20

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

8475 likes

#21

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4313 likes

#22

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
― St. Augustine

645 likes

#23

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: integrity, morality

2922 likes

#24

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality

2188 likes

#25

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: morality, usefulness

1713 likes

#26

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

4623 likes

#27

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

3873 likes

#28

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

3153 likes

#29

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

2767 likes

#30

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: self-awareness, self-discovery

2987 likes

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