“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up”
― Jet Mykles, Squire
“Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.”
― Denis Healey
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"The buck stops here."
Harry Truman
"I don't take responsibility at all."
D. T.
“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.”
― Robert M Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.”
― Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.”
― Elie Wiesel
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner
“Our silence was not the vacuum that comes from having said all there is to say. Whatever conversation we had fell naturally to pieces and crumbled in bitter silence.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another
“We are all someone's monster.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
“You can’t reason someone out of something that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place.”
— Mark Twain
“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
“Because my demon told me to” isn’t a generally accepted reason,”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
“Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln
