Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard ShawIt’s not possible to stop love.
Alice WalkerI believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.
BonoNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John SteinbeckWhen I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘
Steven WrightAll mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin FranklinThe superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
ConfuciusAction is character.
F. Scott FitzgeraldSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham LincolnPublic behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen CoveyI have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles DickensMen in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius CaesarSuspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William ShakespeareOf what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
DiogenesThe quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous HuxleyMan consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody AllenI didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
Vivienne WestwoodAll great peoples are conservative.
Thomas CarlyleThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren BuffettFrank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin DisraeliWe are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEverybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.
Denzel WashingtonAlthough modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma GandhiIt is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOur life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus AureliusIn time we hate that which we often fear.
William ShakespeareThere is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander HamiltonMan alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel JohnsonThe way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar WildeI’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
Marilyn MonroeMen despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise PascalWe awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert HubbardSecretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. RowlingTolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. KennedyOur desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert HubbardImmorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. MenckenThe human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. KennedyWell, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Christopher HitchensLulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
Alexander PopeThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David ThoreauI just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.
Kevin GatesI think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
Thich Nhat HanhActions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. TrumanMoney has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin FranklinMen are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
AristotleHatred is settled anger.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.
Anthony BourdainAnything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
EminemYou’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.
Margaret AtwoodDesire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise PascalFear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich NietzscheA bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry FordWe have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.
Charles SpurgeonI’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint EastwoodWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George EliotNo sane man will dance.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOne has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.
Christopher HitchensMotives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.
Joyce Meyer