QUOTES

 

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

- Albert Schweitzer

 

Whoever criticizes a person for being too alienated from society should be suspected of perhaps being too well adjusted to society.  There is nothing wrong with being maladjusted in a sick society.

- Arthur Gish

 

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
- Saint Augustine

 

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

- Kurt Vonnegut

 

It is a grave error to accuse a man who pursues self-knowledge of 'turning his back on society.'  The opposite would be more nearly true: that a man who fails to pursue self-knowledge is and remains a danger to society, for he will tend to misunderstand everything that other people say or do, and remain blissfully unaware of the significance of many of the things he does himself.
- E.F. Schumacher

 

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

- Elie Wiesel

 

If we better studied and understood God’s creation, this would do a great deal to caution and direct us in our use of it.  For how could we find the impudence to abuse the world if we were seeing the great Creator stare us in the face through each and every part of it?”

- William Penn

 

Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth...While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

- Eugene V. Debs

 

In this very bad society, I am in favour only of the kind of actions I would take in a better society.  I think whatever we do now should be a model for what people are to do in the future.

- Paul Goodman

 

The exploration of new ways of living that support new ways of being is a movement that arises from the awakening of compassion – the dawning realization that the fate of the individual is intimately connected with the fate of the whole.

- Ram Dass

 

Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.
- Frank Moore Colby

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
– Albert Einstein

What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”
- Mother Teresa

 

Life is greater than all art. I would go even further and declare that the man whose life comes nearest to perfection is the greatest artist. For what is art without the sure foundation and framework of a noble life?
- Mahatma Gandhi

 

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

 

I think of the world and what’s going on.  Because man’s gone through history with so much death, killing, stealing, I don’t think man can do it on his own.  It’s obvious what’s going to happen on this earth unless man changes. I, for one, need something to grab on to, to hold on to.”

- Terry Fox