Wednesday, October 20, 2010

thoughts

There is brutality and there is honesty. There is no such thing as brutal honesty.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Man is an ape, that doesn't understand anything unless it hurts.

Removing the straw that broke the camel's back does not necessarily
allow the camel to walk again.

Many people feel that they deserve some kind of recognition for all the bad things they haven't done.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Most people prefer certainty to truth.

A man's best friend is his dogma.

If he learns from his mistakes, pretty soon he'll know everything.

It would be nice to be sure of anything the way some people are of everything.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

There are few people more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so.

Often things ARE as bad as they seem!

Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.

The lesser of two evils -- is evil.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

If we don't alter our course, we're going to end up where we're headed.

People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.

If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

The superior man thinks of what is right. The small man thinks of what is profitable.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

You can move the world with an idea, but you have to think of it first.

Wisdom is rarely found on the best-seller list.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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