Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.[Mother Teresa] Quote:For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.[Adelle Davis] Quote:Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.[Bill Cosby] Quote:You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Time makes more converts than reason.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.[Socrates] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.[Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.[Plato] Quote:He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Have I inadvertently said some evil thing? [Sir Philip Sidney] Quote:Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. [Raymond Chandler] Quote:Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. [George Santayana] Quote:You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. [Norman Douglas] Quote:Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. [Mark Twain] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. [Adelle Davis] Quote:The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. [Bill Cosby] Quote:Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. [Sinclair Lewis] Quote:Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. [Samuel Johnson] Quote:Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. [Unknown] Quote:An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. [Dan Rather] Definitions of: vertDefinition: Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.Definition: The right or privilege of cutting growing wood. Definition: The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right. |
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