Quotes
Quotes about Cause
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a communist; They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist; They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me.
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
How come you are so fond of all those probability people? Because they are never negative.
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
I long for eternity because there I shall meet my unwritten poems and my unpainted pictures.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
