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Quotes for Transformation ~ COMMUNITY & SOCIETY ~"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." —Ralph Waldo Emerson "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain "This planet can be made a happier, more peaceful place to live, but the change will have to come from within the hearts of all of us living here." —Wisdom from Science of Identity Foundation "Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book and dismiss whatever insults your own soul." —Walt Whitman A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. –Albert Einstein "If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive." –Raymond Chandler (from the novel, 'Dick Tracy') "It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities." —Sir Josiah Stamp "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." —George Bernard Shaw "The judgment of others does not change who I am. Quite the opposite is true. It reveals who they are." —Terry McPhearson "The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." —Margaret Chase Smith "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." —Abraham Lincoln "The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream." —Virginia Woolf "It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change." —Charles Darwin "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." —Nietzsche "A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed... When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic." —Dresden James "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." —Robert A. Heinlein "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." —Abraham Lincoln
"If there is righteousness in the heart "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." —Noam Chomsky "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." —R. Buckminster Fuller
"So many gods, so many creeds, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." —Reinhold Niebuhr "When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always." —Mahatma Gandhi "A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on." —Mark Twain "It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." —Adler "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." —Leonardo da Vinci "When we are no longer able to change a situation... we are challenged to change ourselves." —Victor Frankl "Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment." —Alan Cohen "The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." —Margaret Chase Smith "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other alternatives." —Abba Eban "A nation that values it's privileges above its principles soon loses both." —Eisenhower "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." —Euripedes "Opinions founded on prejudice are always defended with the greatest violence." —Hebrew proverb "What luck for the rulers that men do not think." —Adolph Hitler "The great mass of people more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a minor one." —Adolph Hitler "You can discover what your enemy fears most by what he uses to frighten you." —Eric Hoffer "Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." —J. F. Kennedy "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." —Martin Luther King "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." —Mark Twain "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility." —Henry Longfellow "If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." —C. S. Lewis "Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way." "It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." —Justice Robert jackson "When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been comitted in the name of obedience than have been comitted in the name of rebellion." —C. P. Snow "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." —Martin Luther King, Jr. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain "If you are seeking revenge, start by digging two graves." —Ancient Chinese proverb "Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit." —Napoleon Bonaparte - stated near the end of his life "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." —William James "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." —Albert Einstein "We all judge others, but we all hate it when others judge us." "The measure of a person's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." —Thomas Macaulay "Everyone needs to be loved, especially when they do not deserve it." "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." —Galileo Galilei "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." —Mother Teresa "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change - and to preserve change amid order" —Alfred North Whitehead "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." —Albert Camus "He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." —Raymond Hull "I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." —Goethe "You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." —Harriet Woods
"An eye for an eye will only serve to make the whole world blind." "Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions." —William Hazlitt "Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you." —Pericles "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." "Everything can be taken from a man but...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." —Viktor Frankl "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." —Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." —George Bernard Shaw "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." —Noam Chomsky "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." —Edmund Burke "Real peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice" —Film: 'Air Force One' "A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help." —Albert Schweitzer "Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life." —Northrup Christiane "Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks." —Will Durant "This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." —William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move." "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
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