If it is to be, it is up to me.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lost their feeling of causality.

Paul Goodman

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Olive Schreiner

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

Han Suyin

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

Duncan Sheik

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Shirley Chisholm

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Broderick Crawford

It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it.

General Robert E. Lee, at the ba

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

Jon Meacham

Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband -- it creeps up insidiously... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone.

Baron Lane

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

L. Ron Hubbard