"The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children."
~~ Nelson Mandela [1918-2013]
"The enemy is fear. We think [that] it is hate, but it is fear."
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Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people."
~~ Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black [1886-1971]
Leviticus 19:33-34 and 24:22 – "When the alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
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Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]
"Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet."
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Dr. Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
"If you’re really going to be free you’re going to have to overcome the love of wealth and the fear of death."
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
"Luxury is the opposite of mediocrity."
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Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]
"Everything is hard before it is easy."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832]
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
~~ John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir [1875-1940] of Scotland
"Take away the right to say 'f***' and you take away the right to say 'f*** the government'."
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Lenny Bruce [1925-66]
"Le seul moyen de guérir, c'est de se considérer comme guéri. {The only way to heal is to consider yourself cured.}"
~~ Gustave Flaubert [1821-80]
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
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Benito Mussolini [1883-1945]
"You wake up in the morning and you say, 'There are dragons to slay and giants to fight'."
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
"I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing."
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John Steinbeck [1902-68]
"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
~~ Aleister Crowley [1875-1947]
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions."
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G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936]
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."
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Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88]
"It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region."
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Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
"Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live."
~~ Haruki Murakami
"You'll see it when you believe it."
~~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer [1940-2015]
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
~~ Thomas Dekker [1572-1632]
"If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable."
~~ Sir Thomas More [1478-1535]
"I don't do drugs. I am drugs . . . There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
~~ Salvador Dali [1904-89]
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."
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Buddhist leader Acharya Pema Chödrön
"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one."
~~ John C. Maxwell
"The only place where success comes before work is the dictionary."
~~ Vince Lombardi [1913-70]
"Elect a clown, expect a circus."
~~ Mikel Jollett, on Twitter
"At the risk of sounding sexist, I'm looking forward to Ivanka Trump's excellent perp walk photos."
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G.E. Nordell
"[President Trump] is morally oblivious. He is, by an order of magnitude, the most amoral creature to ever occupy the White House."
~~ TV pundit Lawrence O'Donnell
"We are not 'his' people, we are Americans."
~~ David Zasloff
"Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it."
~~ Joseph Goebbels [1897-1945], Nazi Propaganda Minister, 1933-45
"Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the internment camps for U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history."
~~
former First Lady Laura Bush
"Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission."
~~
engineer Vannevar Bush [1890-1974]
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936]
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
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Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
"Has anybody studied whether alcohol is a gateway drug to cocaine and heroin?"
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G.E. Nordell
"I don't hate Trump. I pray for him."
~~ Tyler Merritt
"One child kidnapped is an Amber Alert. 2,000 children kidnapped is Republican policy."
~~ Emelie Rose Barg, on Facebook
another 'found' slogan for t-shirts: Prize inside!
"The people who sheltered Anne Frank were breaking the law. The people who killed her were obeying the law."
~~ Gershon Baskin of Israel, on Facebook
"Just because you don’t see a judge doesn’t mean you aren’t receiving due process."
~~ White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
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Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
"Our decision to move some of our operations [off-shore] is 100% based on President Trumps tariffs. Mr. Trump knows nothing about economics and even less about trade. The man is a moron."
~~ Harley Davidson CEO Matthew S. Levatich
"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse."
~~ character Calvin in the "Calvin & Hobbes" daily cartoon [1985-95] as drawn by cartoonist Bill Watterson
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
~~ Albert Schweitzer [1875-1965]
"Democracy is a device that ensures [that] we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]
"The Fake news for today is that the Fake President used Fake Diplomacy to prevent a Fake War. So maybe he deserves a Fake Nobel Peace Prize?"
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G.E. Nordell
"We are fools whether we dance or not. So we might as well dance."
~~ Japanese proverb
"I have already lost touch with a couple of people [that] I used to be."
~~ Joan Didion
"We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy."
~~ Bill Gates
"The trouble is, you think [that] you have time."
~~ Gautama Buddha [5th Century BCE]
"I've seen several tweets comparing [Trump's concentration camps] to Nazis and the Holocaust and saying things like 'this is how it begins'. I teach holocaust literature so let me be clear: this isn't how it began. This is already several stages along the way."
~~ Aviva Dautch of London, U.K.
"The best path in life should aim for the goal of wholeness."
~~ Deepak Chopra
"Anybody who comes out for peace is not for peace. Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle."
~~ Bob Dylan, June 1986 Rolling Stone Magazine interview
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
