Timeless Wisdom: Profound Quotes for Life's Journey - Page 60
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What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.Collection: Wisdom
I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that they are there and we are trying to do something about it.Collection: Wisdom
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?Collection: Wisdom
If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.Collection: Wisdom
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.Collection: Wisdom
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.Collection: Wisdom
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.Collection: Wisdom
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.Collection: Wisdom
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.Collection: Wisdom
On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.Collection: Wisdom
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.Collection: Wisdom
You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterdayCollection: Wisdom
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.Collection: Wisdom
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.Collection: Wisdom
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.Collection: Wisdom
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.Collection: Wisdom
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.Collection: Wisdom
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.Collection: Wisdom
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.Collection: Wisdom
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.Collection: Wisdom
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.Collection: Wisdom
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.Collection: Wisdom
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.Collection: Wisdom
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.Collection: Wisdom
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.Collection: Wisdom
It all ends in tears anyway.Collection: Wisdom
I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.Collection: Wisdom
It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.Collection: Wisdom
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.Collection: Wisdom
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.Collection: Wisdom
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.Collection: Wisdom
Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.Collection: Wisdom
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.Collection: Wisdom
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?Collection: Wisdom
What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.Collection: Wisdom
Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.Collection: Wisdom
The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.Collection: Wisdom
...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.Collection: Wisdom
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.Collection: Wisdom
The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.Collection: Wisdom
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.Collection: Wisdom
Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."Collection: Wisdom
You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.Collection: Wisdom
In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.Collection: Wisdom
In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.Collection: Wisdom
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.Collection: Wisdom
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.Collection: Wisdom
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.Collection: Wisdom
We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.Collection: Wisdom