Laur > Laur's Quotes

“Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals”
― Colman McCarthy

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

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Since every country stands in numerous and various relations with the other countries of the world, and many, our own among the number, exercise actual authority over some of these, a knowledge of the established rules of international morality is essential to the duty of every nation, and therefore of every person in it who helps to make up the nation, and whose voice and feeling form a part of what is called public opinion. Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject. It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt, and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just and noble.”
― John Stewart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867

“and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive”
― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

“That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone having a good fucking laugh.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes”
― Bella Abzug

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

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

“Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
― J.K. Rowling

“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

“Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.”
― I.F. Stone

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
― Henry Kissinger

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity.”
― Vera Brittain

“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. ”
― R.D. Laing