Mar. 19th, 2009
Still other quotes I like
Mar. 19th, 2009 07:41 amVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Kennedy
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van der Post , The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Kennedy
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van der Post , The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho