Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
~Martin Luther King, Jr., 1955 [King, 1963: "...the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice." —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin... ~Charles Darwin, August 1836 entry about slavery in Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N., Chapter XXI
"Cool fact: Do you know how many seconds there are in 6 weeks? 10!"
--Julia Galef on Twitter
(and she's right)
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ~Oscar Wilde
Few veterans cherish a romantic remembrance of war. War is awful. When nations seek to settle their differences by force of arms a million tragedies ensue. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ~John McCain, 1999
Too often too late comes too soon. ~Dr. SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ~English professor, Ohio University
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951
It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.
I never knew an enemy of puns who was not an ill-natured man. A pun is a noble thing per se; it fills the mind, it is as perfect as a sonnet. May my last breath be drawn through a pipe and exhaled as a pun. ~Charles Lamb
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ~Norman Douglas
“What-the-hell are you people doing in an art-gallery anyway?? If you’re looking for art, you won’t find it here. You might as well hope to find religion in a church, health in a pill-bottle, youth in a jar of cosmetics, or true-love in a brothel.”
Mike Brown, 1972
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
