February 2012
2 posts
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
– Edward Abbey, writer, essayist, novelist (1927-1989)
November 2011
1 post
“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.”
– (via travelchannel)
October 2011
1 post
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day...”
– Mark Twain (via torevolution)
September 2011
4 posts
1 tag
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein
1 tag
“I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell...”
– E.B. White (1899-1985)
5 tags
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of...”
– Helen Keller (via veganemelda)
2 tags
August 2011
4 posts
5 tags
“When someone works for less pay than she can live on…she has made a great...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (via squeetothegee)
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
– Mark Twain (via lilmaj132)
3 tags
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Nietzsche (via cwnl)
5 tags
“Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ...”
– Shirley Chisholm (via daniellemertina)
July 2011
1 post
“It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem....”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (via disorderanddisarray)
June 2011
3 posts
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried...”
– Winston Churchill (via lilmaj132)
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and...”
– Richard P. Feynman
(via libraryland)
May 2011
1 post
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
– Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776)
March 2011
2 posts
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest;...”
– Confucius (via crookedindifference)
“My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why...”
– Tom Waits (via mr-kite) (via cirquedetout) (via vergeofbliss) (via starryfeet) (via whisperingwillow, slaughterhousefive)
“They asked if I’d fight for my country, I told the FBI yay
I would point a gun...”
– Woody Guthrie (acres of clams)
February 2011
4 posts
“In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
sitasays:
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Kahlil Gibran
“…supposing you’re trying to find out how a cat works —
so you take the cat...”
– ~ Douglas Adams (via wolvenrevelation)
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to...”
– Dōgen (via awakeinthedream)
January 2011
6 posts
1 tag
“The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses....”
– Mark Twain (via deathbyamerica)
“It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities...”
– Elie Wiesel (via mohandasgandhi)
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our...”
– Charles Darwin (via ellobofilipino)
“If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been...”
– Joseph Campbell
(via oceanofmind)
December 2010
1 post
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– ~Isaac Asimov (via fuckyeahkickassquotes)
November 2010
6 posts
“If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life...”
– Albert Einstein (via lifeinsideout)
1 tag
“The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to...”
– Sitting Bull
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
– Norman Douglas (via whisperingwillow)
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (attrib)
October 2010
7 posts
1 tag
“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like...”
– Nelson Mandela (via ne-plus-ultra)
“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via mohandasgandhi)
1 tag
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the...”
– Helen Keller (via bookspaperscissors:jonalport)
“If not now, when? If not here, where?”
– Sufi saying (via crashinglybeautiful)
If not me, who?
(via tennroof)
1 tag
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation...”
– Kofi Annan (via kivateam)
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts,...”
– Shel Silverstein
(via girlwithoutwings)
September 2010
3 posts
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom...”
– Abbie Hoffman (via whisperingwillow)
1 tag
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde (via wolvenrevelation)
1 tag
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller (1880-1968)
July 2010
5 posts
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
– Joan Baez (via other-stuff)
“Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.”
– Lewis Mumford (via nathanielstuart) (via booklover)
