Quotes · Skopia

29 quotes

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Autobiography and memoir

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

1974

★ 1.1

We have to begin to have a conversation that incorporates a vision of love with a vision of outrage.

2016

★ 1.1

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labour.

1911

★ 1.2

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

2014

★ 1.2

The highest result of education is tolerance.

1903

★ 1.3

Slowly the reality of it all formed in my mind: we were expendable! It was difficult to accept. We come from a nature and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience.

1981

★ 1.7

The truth is that we need invertebrates but they don't need us. If human beings were to disappear tomorrow, the world would go on with little change... But if invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt that the human species could last more than a few months.

1987

★ 1.7

The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured-especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

1998

★ 1.7

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

1929

★ 1.9

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

Condoleezza Rice

2002

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

1902

★ 2.0

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

1953

★ 2.0

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

2006

★ 2.0

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

1960

★ 3.5

Song · Great American songbook · Soul music

Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find, Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.

Georgia on my Mind · 1960

★ 3.5

When I make up my mind, I act. If I speak, what I say, I will do. If the hail rattles, let the flowers be crushed. The oak of the forest will lift up its head to the sky and storm, towering and unscathed.

1836

★ 3.5

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institiution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockeffeler, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.7

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system-that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.7

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.

1891

★ 3.8

Religious literature

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

1940

★ 3.8

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