For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

Marya Mannes

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

A. J. P. Taylor

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Dan Savage

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland.

Abraham Lincoln

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Bob Riley

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Francis Parker Yockey

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

William Penn

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Will Durant

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Dorothy L. Sayers