truth

 

 

 

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Immanuel Kant

dark

 

 

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James A. Michener

listening

 

 

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.

Nikki Giovanni

controls

 

 

 

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

everything

 

 

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

Andre Gide

flaw

 

 

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut

paradise

 

 

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Victor Hugo

past

 

To be locked in the past means, in effect, that one has no past, since one can never assess it, or use it: and if one cannot use the past, one cannot function in the present, and so one can never be free.

James Baldwin

grief

 

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

Vicki Harrison

tolerance

 

 

 

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Thomas Mann

solitude

 

 

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; n the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Friedrich Nietzsche

third world

 

 

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

Hannah Arendt

dangerous

 

 

 

There are no dangerous thought; thinking it-self is dangerous.

Hannah Arendt

totaliarianism

 

 

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Hannah Arendt

photography

 

 

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

crying

 

 

Crying is just the way your eyes speak when your mouth can't explain how broken your heart is.

Japanese saying

truth

 

 

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

illusion

 

 

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Anais Nin

mind

 

 

 

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

wrong

 

 

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Malcolm X

stupid

 

 

Man is often stupid alone, but in packs he's absolutely cretinous.

Steve Toltz

love

 

 

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

 

people

 

 

People who shut their eyes to reality simple invite their own destruction.

James Baldwin

grief

 

 

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

Vicki Harrison

you

 

 

 

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis

power

 

 

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

world

 

 

We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anyone is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.

George Orwell

conscience

 

 

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Octavia E. Butler

triumph

 

 

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

universe

 

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Paulo Coelho

higher

 

 

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner