Quotes · Skopia

113 quotes

1969

★ 9.5

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

1853

★ 8.7

Speech · Political speech

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream · 1963

★ 8.6

Song · Protest music · Folk music

Come mothers and fathers, Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand.

Bob Dylan

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1964

★ 7.6

Letter

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

1676

★ 7.4

Speech · Political speech

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

1857

★ 7.3

Speech

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

1884

★ 7.1

Philosophical literature

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx

Theses on Feurbach · 1845

★ 7.1

Sermon

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1968

★ 7.1

Essay · Political literature

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

James Madison

Federalist 51 · 1788

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Frederick Douglass

1857

★ 7.0

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres

1159

★ 6.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street · 1987

★ 6.9

Song · Protest music · Folk music

Come Senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall.

Bob Dylan

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1963

★ 6.4

Poem

We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman

Pioneers! O Pioneers! · 1867

★ 5.6

Novel

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables · 1851

★ 5.2

Song · Pop music

Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Bruce Cockburn

Lovers in a Dangerous Time · 1984

★ 5.2

Interview

Justice is love on legs, spilling over into the public sphere.

Cornel West

2009

★ 4.6

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Charles Baudelaire

1867

★ 4.5

Feminist literature

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Paglia

Sexual Personae · 1990

★ 4.5

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