Today Quotes
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Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil
There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.Clarence Darrow
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
There is only one way to hurt someone who has lost everything -- give him back something broken.Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."Martin Luther King Jr.
The world has changed.
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.J. R. R. Tolkien
They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.Kahlil Gibran
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein