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A Collection of Quotes which Address Dignity and Humiliation

None of us can be free until we all are free!
- Saying that circulates in various versions

Quotes collected by Linda M. Hartling
Linda Hartling and Rick Slaven have opened our first HumanDHS Dialogue Home in Oregon, USA! Please see their kind invitation, and see the pictures of the opening celebration on August 8, 2009 with all the quotes and messages decorating the walls of the house! See here some transcriptions:
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See here a transcription of Bronson Alcott's Maxims on Education.
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When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
- Cree prophecy
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet (1803 - 1882)

Linda M. Hartling
A world without humiliation dignifies us all!
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For me, rather than thinking of human dignity as an individual, internal phenomena, I like to think of human dignity as a co-created experience. It is a experience developed through respectful connection (interpersonal, social, international, etc.) in which people feel known and valued, they feel that they matter... It is our responsibility to participate in the construction of this relational experience for all people.
- These are reflections sent to us by Linda Hartling on October 11, 2006.
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The starting point for new economic possibilities may be emphasizing that relationships should lead rather than follow economic strategies.
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Humiliation is a violation of unity in dignity and respect.

Eric Hoffer
In times of change, the learners inherit the world, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

Hafiz
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The truth has shed so much of itself in me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman...
- Fourteenth century Persian Sufi poet Hafiz

Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Eleanor Roosevelt
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together, or we are going to learn to live together and if we are going to live together, we will have to talk!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Max Planck
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
- Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and other Papers, translated by Frank Gaynor (Philosophical Library, New York, 1950), pp. 33-34

Javier Perez de Cuellar
The measure of civilization/society is how they treat their weakest members.
- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar
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Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.
- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

Bob Fuller
Humiliation is the most important obstacle to a post-predatory era for humankind.
- Bob Fuller

Hubert Humphrey
The moral test of a government is how it treats those who are at the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadow of life, the sick and the needy, and the handicapped.
- Hubert Humphrey

Donald C. Klein
"Appreciative Being" relates to life events via our human inherent capacity for experiencing awe and wonderment at being part of the universe.
- Donald C. Klein

Rachel Carson
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
- Rachel Carson

Swami Satchidananda
Once, we were fine. We were all one.
Then, we de-fined ourselves: this person is white, this one is black, this one is English, this one is Russian and this one is Chinese.
Now, it's time to re-fine ourselves, and once again see that we are all one. So we were fine, we de-fined, now we must re-fine.
- Swami Satchidananda

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by descending itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., minister, political activist (1929-1968)
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Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites - so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. ..... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
- A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., edited by James M. Washington. This quote comes from Martin Luther King Jr. 1967, SCLC presidential address.
- This quote was kindly provided to us by Linda Hartling.
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I am sure that there are some things in our world to which we should never be adjusted. There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial discrimination and racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. We must never adjust ourselves to the madness of militarism, and the self-defeating effects of physical violence.
- King's Challenge to the Nation's Social Scientists, APA Monitor Online, 30 (1, January 1999).
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We will have to repent in this generation, not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., minister, political activist (1929-1968), this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.
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Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 WMU Speech
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Violence… seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert… it creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Arunduti Roy
For those of us who are on the wrong side of Empire, the humiliation is becoming unbearable. Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.
- Arunduti Roy, San Francisco, September 2004

Albert Einstein
The most important human endeavor is
the striving for morality in our actions.
Our inner balance and even our very existence
depend on it. Only morality in our actions
can give beauty and dignity to life.
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
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The world is dangerous not because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
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The intuituive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein. We thank Carol Routh for making us aware of this quote
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Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
- Albert Einstein. We thank Mark Singer for making us aware of this quote.
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein. We thank Betty Reardon for making us aware of this quote.

Ezra Taft Benson
Pride is concerned with who is right,
Humility is concerned with what is right.
- Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994). This quote was kindly provided by Kathryn Crawford, April 2005

George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by recollections of the past, but by our responsibility to the future.
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856–1950). This quote was kindly provided by Anita Wenden, April 2005

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
- Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207–1273), Persian poet of Afghanistan who later settled in Konia Turkey. This quote was kindly provided by Noor Akbar Khalil, April 2005.
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There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
O traveler, if you are in search of That
Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That.
I am blasphemy and religion, pure and impure;
Old, young, and a small child.
If I die, don't say that he died.
Say he was dead, became alive, and was taken by the Beloved.
In the waters of purity, I melted like salt
Neither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nor doubt remained.
In the center of my heart a star has appeared
And all the seven heavens have become lost in it.
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water.
You personify God's message.
You reflect the King's face.
There is nothing in the universe that you are not
Everything you want, look for it within yourself -
you are that.
- Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207–1273), Persian poet of Afghanistan who later settled in Konia Turkey. We thank Latha Nrughan for this link: peacefulrivers.homestead.com/Rumipoetry3.html.

Thich Nhat Hanh
Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.
- Thich Nhat Hanh in Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
The very right to live is only afforded to us if we fulfill our duty as citizens of the world. Nationalism is not the highest concept. The highest concept is a world community.
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Unity of hearts is all that is necessary. If this cannot be had, all else is futile; if this is accomplished, nothing else is necessary.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
- Mahatma Gandhi in Non-Violence in Peace and War, Vol. 2, 1948.
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"What do I think of Western Civilization?" "I think it would be a good idea."
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
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First they ignore you,
then they ridicule you,
then they fight you,
then you win

Vaclav Havel
Hope is not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
- Vaclav Havel, Czech playwright, president.

Elie Wiesel
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to only by other human beings.
- Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born US writer.

Amin Maalouf
For the Americans, the English and some others, the English language is of course the language of identity. But for the rest of mankind, that is to say more than nine-tenth of our contemporaries, it cannot fill that role, and it would be dangerous to try to make it so unless we want to produce hordes of people who are unhinged and disoriented, with personalities that are unbalanced. No one should be forced to become a mental expatriate every time he opens a book, sits down in front of a screen, enters into a discussion or thinks. People ought to be able to make their own modernity instead of always feeling they are borrowing it from others.
- Amin Maalouf in On Identity (2000), kindly provided to us by Bill Templer, Rajamangala U niversity of Technology Lanna, Phitsanulok, Thailand.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller

Gifford Pinchot
The vast possibilities of our great future wil become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for our future.
- Gifford Pinchot

Indira Gandhi
Wer die Faust ballt, kann nicht die Hand reichen.
[Those who make a fist, can't shake hands.]
- Indira Gandhi

Franz Kafka
Wege entstehen dadurch, dass man sie geht.
[Paths come into being by walking them.]
- Franz Kafka

Im Leben ist es wie beim Radfahren:
Kurz bevor es wie von selbst geht, scheint es uns am allerschwierigsten.
[In life, it is like with riding a bycicle: Just before it is easy, it appears to be impossible.]
- Anonymous

Es gibt keinen Mut ohne Angst.
[There is no courage without fear.]
- Anonymous

Anita Brookner
Humiliations, though ineradicable, must be repaired before they take root.
- Anita Brookner in Bay of Angels, 2001.
- This quote was kindly provided to us by Linda Hartling. Linda kindly writes (October 15, 2006): I think this sentence accurately captures the enduring impact of humiliation while emphasizing the urgency to repair these breaks in relationships. Like Brookner, I tend to believe that once a humiliation has occurred it cannot be completely erased. Without timely intervention, victims become marked or haunted by these experiences - their humiliation takes root in their lives.
This quote lends additional support for Victoria's concept of "humiliation awareness." Perhaps humiliation awareness could not only reduce new incidents of humiliation, it could prevent humiliation from taking root in people's lives.

Alliance of Civilisations
Peoples who feel that they face persistent discrimination, humiliation, or marginalisation are reacting by asserting their identity more aggressively.
- Alliance of Civilisations report, 13th November, 2006.

Minds are like parachutes: They only work when they are open!
- Anonymous

Victor Zurbel
To find that heart of compassion in brutal leaders and people in power situations is, I imagine, one of your greater challenges. Power by humiliation is an acquired disease, cultivated by thousands of years of pathological history. We need to find the antidote, which is compassion coupled with a firm, non-violen use of resistance and pressure.
- Victor Zurbel, November 30, 2006, in a personal message.

Jean Baker Miller, MD
- Authenticity is ever-evolving, not achieved at any one momentit is a persons ongoing ability to represent herself in relationships more fully. (1999)
- Authenticity and subordination are totally incompatible. (1976)
- The attempt at authenticity requires a clear and direct risk. (1976)
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"What then is all this saying--and not saying? First that people have to participate in, and foster the development of other people, not once, in infancy, but all through life. The quality and quantity of such participation may vary with each stage of life but the necessity exists because development always requires participation of others. The very tendency to think of this activity as a static, almost one-shot (or one time period) phenomenon may indicate how far our culture has become removed from recognizing that this "need" exists at all times, not just when we are "dependent," but is a constant necessity in human development and human development is a necessity all through life."
- Jean Baker Miller, MD, (1976, October), Minutes - Board of Overseers. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College.

Peace
It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
- unknown

Anthony J. Marsella
Show, by your actions, that you choose peace over war, freedom over oppression, voice over silence, service over self-interest, respect over advantage, cooperation over competition, action over passivity, diversity over uniformity, and justice over all.
- Marsella, Anthony J. (2006). Justice in a Global Age: Becoming Counselors to the World. In Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 19 (2, June), 121-132, on page 131

Virginia Woolf
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- Virginia Woolf, 1938
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Imaginative work is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; it is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but attached to all four corners of the earth.
- Virginia Woolf. We thank Linda Hartling for bringing this quote to us!

Vaclav Havel
I am not an optimist because I am not sure that everything ends well, nor am I a pessimist because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have meaning. It is not an estimate of the state of the world. It is something that you either have or you dont, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. It is a dimension of human existence.
- Vaclav Havel, Oslo Conference, The Anatomy of Hate, 1990

Buddha
Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain.
Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat.
- Gautama Buddha

"You can look back to the past, just don't stare!"
- Anonymous, related to us by Stephanie Heuer

George Bernard Shaw
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw

Ludwig Robert
To the eagle spoke the dove: where thinking ceases, there begins faith. Right, he replied, but with this difference, where you already believe, I still reason."
"Zu dem Adler sprach die Taube:
Wo das Denken aufhört, da beginnt der Glaube;
Recht, sprach jener, mit dem Unterschied jedoch,
Wo du glaubst, da denk' ich noch."
- German poet Ludwig Robert, often quoted by the father of Inge Danaher, Peter Roehlen, as follows: "Beyond knowledge comes belief" and the eagle replied "yes, but where you already believe, I still know."

Peter Roehlen
"Herr sei das Herz, der Verstand stehts Knecht, doch der tüchtigste Knecht, sei dem Herrn nur recht"
Translated: "Master be the heart, the mind always it's servant, however let only the most diligent servant be good enough for the master"
- Inge Danaher's father, Peter Roehlen

Terri Swearingen
We are living on this planet as if we have another one to go to.
- Terri Swearingen; this quote is written in huge letters on a wall of qm, the Queensland Museum South Bank, in Brisbane, Australia, admired by Evelin on 10th August 2007

Marshall McLuhan
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
- Marshall McLuhan; this quote is written in huge letters on a wall of qm, the Queensland Museum South Bank, in Brisbane, Australia, admired by Evelin on 10th August 2007

Wringing your hands just slows you down from pushing up your sleeves!
- Anonymous

Abigail Van Buren
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
- Abigail Van Buren

Sydney J. Harris
There's no point in burying the hatchet if youre going to put up a marker on the site.
- Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986); this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

Every person should have a special cemetery lot in which to bury the faults of friends and loved ones.
- Anonymous; this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

Rabindranath Tagore
The winds of grace are always blowing. It is you that must raise your sails.
- Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet, composer, philosopher (1861-1941); this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

John Hancock
A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
- John Hancock, politician, Revolutionary leader (1737-1793), this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

A man visits a Quaker meeting for the first time. After sitting in silence for several minutes, he turns to his neighbor and asks, 'When does the service start?' to which his neighbor replies, 'After the meeting.'"
- Anonymous, this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

Lewis L. Dunningham
The greatest force for making people bigger and better than they are now is the belief in your heart and mind that they have the infinite potential for growth. Even when they fail us, we are to continue to carry and express the mental image of what they may become. To have someone believe in you, even whey you fail is the most blessed and creative force in the universe.
- Lewis L. Dunningham, this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

Buckminster Fuller
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller, this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

Walt Whitman
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman, poet, journalist (1819-1892); this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

Julius and Augustus Hare
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
- Julius and Augustus Hare, British writers (1795-1855 and 1834-1903); this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
- George-Bernard Shaw; this quote was kindly provided to us by Yoav Peck, who gathered it from the "Character Counts" website.

Andrew Greeley
It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us. Perhaps the reason is that rich men are very clever at covering up what they do.
- Andrew Greeley (Chicago Sun-Times, February 18, 2001)

Harold Laski
A state divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.
- Harold Laski (1930)

Plutarch
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
- Plutarch - Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 AD- 127 AD) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.

Woodrow Wilson
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
- Woodrow Wilson

James Baldwin
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
- James Baldwin Biography - Fiction Writer, Essayist, Social Critic, 1924-1987

Prayer
I asked for Strength.........
And God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for Wisdom.........
And God gave me Problems to solve.
I asked for Prosperity.........
And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.
I asked for Courage.........
And God gave me Danger to overcome.
I asked for Love.........
And God gave me Troubled people to help.
I asked for Favours.........
And God gave me Opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted
I received everything I needed
My Prayer has been answered

Karl Jaspers
Was der Mensch ist, das ist er durch die Sache, die er zur seinen macht.
- Karl Jaspers

It's far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.
- see a discussion at http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/09/20.html
Det er for sent å være pessimist nå.
- Finn Tschudi forklarer at dette er tittelen på en bok som er et festskrift til fredsaktivisten Ole Kopreitan på hans 70 årsdag, redaktør Knut Tønsberg, Emilia forlag.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Peace is the opposite of security.
- "The Church and the People of the World," sermon delivered by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which
he delivered at the Ecumenical Conference of churches in Fano, on August 28, 1934. We thank Ralph Lentz for making us aware of this quote! See pictures from 2007 of his memorial in Breslau.

Worry is thought attached to the illusion of control.
- Anonymous

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
- Unknown

Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix

Intelligence and humility are compatible as long as humility comes first.
- Unknown

Joanna Harcourt-Smith
Humiliation is the disease, and dignity is the cure.
- Joanna Harcourt-Smith (listen to http://www.futureprimitive.org/GAIAlogues.html#latest)

Frank Barron
Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.
- Frank Barron

Kofi Annan
Whether its genocide or ethnic cleansing it always starts with humiliation of one individual.
- Kofi Anan in ‘It Sits On Your Conscience,’ Newsweek, Feb 9, 2008.

Richard Rorty
... [The liberal ironist] thinks that what unites her with the rest of the species is not a common language but just susceptibility to pain and in particular to that special sort of pain which the brutes do not share with the humans - humiliation...
- Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, p. 92.
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Rorty does believe in moral progress, understood as development "in the direction of greater human solidarity... the ability to see more and more traditional differences (of tribe, religion, race, customs, and the like) as unimportant when compared with similarities with respect to pain and humiliation - the ability to think of people wildly different from ourselves as included in the range of 'us'."
- Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, p. 192.

It takes faith to leave the unfinished unfinished!
- related to us by Steve Kulich

Upton Sinclai
It is difficult to make a man understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair

Elik Elhanan
If indignity tears relationships apart, dignity can put them back together.
- Elik Elhanan, in "Learning to speak: I defeat my enemy when I make him my friend," Ode Magazine, May 2008 issue, p. 72. We thank Michael Nagler for making us aware of this quote.

Marcus Aurelius
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

Paulo Freire
No one educates anyone, and nobody is self educated; all of us learn from each other, mediated by the world we live in.
- Paulo Freire

Det er vondt aa bli sint naar ingen blir redd!
- Norwegian saying

The arrogance of ignorance...
- Saying

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
- Saying

Understand the Differences, Act on the Commonalities!
- Saying

George Bernard Shaw
A reasonable person adapts to the world. An unreasonable person adapts the world to herself!
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856–1950

It's not tolerance I'm asking for, it's respect!
- Niels van Quaquebeke, Daniel C. Henrich and Tilman Eckloff

The nearest of neighbors are often the ones who get entangled in the longest of conflicts.
- Saying

Diana Eck
Diversity is a fact. Pluralism is an accomplishment.
- Diana Eck

Paul Grignon
Conventional economics is a rationalization for victimization through fraud.
- Paul Grignon, monetary theorist, offering a visionary shift in monetary thinking

Frederic Bastiat
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
- Frederic Bastiat, 1801-1850, The Law. We thank Paul Grignon for this quote.

John Sherman
Those few who can understand the system (check book money and credit) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be little opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear it burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.
- John Sherman (1823-1900), US Republican Congressman, later Secretary of the Treasury, quoted by the Rothschild Brothers, London in a letter sent June 25th, 1863 to New York Bankers, Ikleheimer, Morton, and Gould seeking an alliance to create a private national bank in America. We thank Paul Grignon for this quote.

John H. Hotson
People today have more erroneous ideas about money than Victorians had about sex.
- John H. Hotson, professor emeritus of economics University of Waterloo, executive director, Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform. We thank Paul Grignon for this quote.

Frederick Douglass
Power concedes nothing without demand.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of the waters. This struggle may be both moral and physical, but it must be struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. And these wrongs will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
- Frederick Douglass, 1857. We thank Paul Grignon for this quote.

Aidan Davison
"...the verb sustaining holds open the actively normative questions that the idea of sustainability raises. We are required to probe: What truly sustains us? Why? And how do we know? Conversely, we must ask: What are we to sustain above all else? Why? And how may we do so?"
- Aidan Davison, Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability, 2001, p.64

Winston S. Churchill
...man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on...
- Winston S. Churchill

Bertrand Russell
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
Bertrand Russell

Rick Ingrasci
I really feel that our generation, the sixties generation, had made a breakthrough that was almost like a recidivist, that we went back and rediscovered what indigenous cultures have known for many, many years, which is that carnival and festivity and ritual and ways to experience communitas, which is really spontaneous love in community, is probably a part of how we're going to find our way out of the jam we're in, as a planet let's say.
- Rick Ingrasci, in his talk Joy, Social Intelligence & the Ethical Imagination, held at Commonweal on April 19th, 2007

Brian Piergrossi
Love is the new religion of the 21st century You don’t have to be a highly educated person Or have any exceptional knowledge to understand it It comes from the intelligence of the heart Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings.
- Brian Piergrossi, in The Big Glow: Insights, Inspirations, Peace and Passion. We would like to thank the 2009 Hollyhock Summer Gathering for this inspirational quote!

Carlos Santana
There is definitely enough love and resources to go around. I have wondered over the years when this could be realized and who would be the ones to do it. Today, I am convinced more than ever that this is the time and that we are the ones we have been waiting for – generations of conscious beings from all walks of life with the courage, communications, and know how to change the world for the better. We are the Architects of A New Dawn and this is what we came here to do.
— Carlos Santana, on http://architectsofanewdawn.com/. We would like to thank the 2009 Hollyhock Summer Gathering for this inspirational quote!

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. We would like to thank the 2009 Hollyhock Summer Gathering for this inspirational quote!
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All things that rise converge.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. We would like to thank Michael W. Fox for this inspirational quote!

Peter Block
The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. The key is to identify how this transformation occurs.
- Peter Block, in Community: The Structure of Belonging. We would like to thank the 2009 Hollyhock Summer Gathering for this inspirational quote!

Vimila Takar
The challenge awaiting us is to go much deeper as human beings, to abandon superficial prejudices and preferences, to expand understanding to a global scale, integrating the totality of living, and to become aware of the wholeness of which we are a manifestation."
- Vimala Thakar, in Spirituality & Social Action: A Holistic Approach. We would like to thank the 2009 Hollyhock Summer Gathering for this inspirational quote!

Andrew Beath
Conscious activism is activism from the heart. It is composed of loving-kindness and requires nothing in return. If we love something, we want to help it thrive: redwood trees, rivers, and everyone's children. As our capacity for love appreciates, our world grows larger. As our connection with the living planet deepens, so does the place in our hearts from which we experience joy.
- Andrew Beath, in Navigating the Future: A Guide for Conscious Activism. We would like to thank the 2009 Hollyhock Summer Gathering for this inspirational quote!

Pema Chodron
If you have a bird's-eye perspective on the Earth and you look down at all the conflicts that are happening, all you see are two sides of a story where both people think they are right. So the solutions have to come from a change of heart, from softening what is rigid within us.
- Pema Chodron, in Practicing Peace in Times of War. We would like to thank the 2009 Hollyhock Summer Gathering for this inspirational quote!

Plato
A person who achieves wealth and power by excluding justice and virtue will lose the health of her body. Life, in this case, is no longer endurable, although pampered with all kinds of meats and drinks. Is such a life worth living? The question itself is ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rest not. Life is sweeping by,
Go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
Leave behind to conquer time.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. We would like to thank the 2009 Hollyhock Summer Gathering for this inspirational quote!
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Every Creature is a Word of God
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. We would like to thak Michael W. Fox for making us aware of this quote.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ubiratan D'Ambrosio
Killing the dignity of individuals is the most subtle form of violence practiced in our societies.
- Ubiratan D'Ambrosio

Leonardo Da Vinci
There are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
...
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do.
...
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Nancy Harrisson
A friend is someone who reminds you of your song when you've temporarily forgotten it.
- Nancy Harrisson

William Stafford
Every war has two losers.
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You may win a war you are sorry to have started.
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Creating the emergencies that justify emergency action.
...
A speech is something you say to distract attention from what you do not say.
...
The trouble about language is that people sometimes believe what you say, and you were only trying it out.
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There are probably ways to live so as to shut out chances to be victimized. Those ways are probably worse than being a victim.
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The sickness of lusting after justice.
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...one trend is toward confrontation, vulgarity; another trend is toward social action against some of the results of vulgarity (prejudice, bullying, harassment). Confused people entangle themselves in both.
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History is the lies people have agreed upon?
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We dominate the world; for the future it is essential that we reach community, not supremacy.
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We drown in ugliness. Art helps teach us to swim.
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Lostness is a function of your assumptions about where you belong.
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An individual's intellect and emotions should be like a good seismograph: sensitive enough to register what happens but strong enough not to be wrecked by the first little thing that happens.
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...as a teacher I believe that if there is such a thing as the lowest person in the class, they deserve the same level reception and cordiality as anybody else.
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If I start in the stance of being the judge, the advocate of culture, the parental figure, I will have a hard time reaching into the spontaneous thoughts and feelings of the group.
- William Stafford, an Oregon pacifist, poet, and activist who became the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. We thank Linda Hartling for making us aware of these quotes that she gathered from:
Stafford, K. (Ed.). (2003). Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War. Minneapolis: Milkweed Press.
Stafford, W., Merchant, P., & Wixon, V. (2003). The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Stafford, W. (2003). You Must Revise Your Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Elise Boulding
Listening is the beginning of peace.
- Elise Boulding

Martin Niemöller
Poem (1976 version)
Original
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Juden holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.

Translation:
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not protest;
I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
- Martin Niemöller (1892–1984), a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor.

Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde

Andre Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide. We thank Zuzana Luckay for making us aware of this quote!

Pisces mortui solum cum flumine natant.
(Only dead fish go with the flow.)

Benjamin Franklin
Time lost is never found again.
- Benjamin Franklin

William Stafford
Every war has two losers.
- William Stafford, peace activist and poet.

Rachel Bagby
Nothing caresses your feet as the Earth.
- Rachel Bagby, Hollyhock, 2009

Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain, via thank for Brian Ward to make us aware of this quote.

Humility is the only certain defense against humiliation.
- Saying

Benjamin Franklin
Humility makes great men twice honorable.
- Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America (1706-1790)

Thomas Merton
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
- Thomas Merton, American Catholic writer and Trappist monk (1915-1968)

John Buchan
Without humility there can be no humanity.
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist and Unionist politician and 15th Governor General of Canada (1875-1940)

George Arliss
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
- George Arliss, English actor (1868-1946)

Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable
-Anonymous

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin
Crisis may give rise to salvation
- Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin

Antonio Machado
Only a fool confuses value and price
- Antonio Machado

Barack H. Obama
We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning
- Barack H. Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009

Emery Reves
There is no "first step" toward world government. World Government is the first step
- Emery Reves, The Anatomy of Peace, 1945, 1904–1981

Richard Sennett
Respect seems so fundamental to our experience of social relations and self that we ought to define more clearly what it is
- Richard Sennett, Respect in a World of Inequality, 2003, p. 49. We thank Werner Schirmer for this quote

H. Jackson Brown
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not by strength but by perseverance
- H. Jackson Brown

Thomas Jefferson
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies
- Thomas Jefferson

André Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it
- Andre Gide

Helen Keller
When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Ubuntu
“Africans have this thing called UBUNTU. It is about the essence of being human, it is part of the gift that Africa will give the world. It embraces hospitality, caring about others, being able to go the extra mile for the sake of others. We believe that a person is a person through another person, that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably, with with yours. When I dehumanise you, I inexorably dehumanise myself. The solitary human being is a contradiction in terms and therefore you seek to work for the common good because your humanity comes into its own in belonging”.
- Desmond Tutu Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, quoted from www.cyc-net.org/today2000/today000328.html. We thank Latha Nrughan for this link.

Bible
Do unto others as you would.....
- Latha Nrughan, connecting the message of Ubuntu with the message of the Bible.
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When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
- Bible, Proverbs Chapter 11 Verse 2

The Bhagvad Gita
The Bhagvad Gita teaches us that real dignity is that which inherent and inalienable as it is within us, that which is today bestowed upon us by someone will also by taken away by someone because all that has a begining, also has an end.
- Latha Nrughan, connecting the message of Ubuntu with the message of the Bible.

Thomas Paine
Independence is my happiness and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world…”
- Thomas Paine. We thank Garry Davis, who uses this quote at the beginning of his book My Country Is the World: The Adventures of a World Citizen, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961

Albert Schweitzer
The human race must be converted to a fresh mental attitude if it is not to suffer extinction. A new renaissance, much greater than that in which we emerged from the Middle Ages, is absolutely essential. Are we going to draw from the spirit enough strength to create new conditions and turn our faces once again to civilization, or are we going to draw our inspiration from our surrounding and go down with them to ruin?
- Albert Schweitzer. We thank René Wadlow for making us aware of this quote.
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer. We thank Michael W. Fox for making us aware of this quote.

Howard Zinn
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
- Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times, p. 208

The Golden Rule in Eleven Religions
“If you seek justice, choose for others what you would choose for yourself." (Baha’i)
“One should seek for others the happiness one derives for one’s self.” (Buddhism)
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” (Christianity)
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not unto others.” (Confucianism)
“Do naught to others which if done to thee would cause pain.” (Hinduism)
“No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.” (Islam)
“We should . . . refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves.” (Jainism)
“What is hurtful to yourself, do not do to our fellow man.” (Judaism)
“As thou deemest thyself, so deem others.” (Sikkhism)
“To those who are good to me, I am also good; and to those who are not good to me, I am also good. And thus all get to be good.” (Taoism)
“Do as you would be done by.” (Zoroastrianism)
- Anthony J. Marsella - Adapted and Expanded from Steven Blessman, December, 2001

Arthur Ashe
True heroism is unremarkable, sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, whatever the cost.
- Arthur Ashe. We thank Chris Bennett for this quote

Napoleon Bonaparte
In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Glen T. Martin
The Earth Constitution is the political form of love as well as justice. Equality and dignity are not exhausted by law, but they must be legislated and protected under law. Uniting the world under the principle of unity in diversity will help create the very transformation of consciousness that they desire.
- Glen T. Martin, in a personal communication, 14th February 2010

Diogenes
We believe and think what we chose to think and believe.
- Diogenes. We thank Michael W. Fox for making us aware of this quote.

Henry David Thoreau
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
- Henry David Thoreau. We thank Michael W. Fox for making us aware of this quote.

John Gilmore
The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
- John Gilmore, American computer science innovator, Libertarian, Internet activist, and one of the founders of Electronic Frontier Foundation. See also www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/.

Michael W. Fox
The Empathosphere is real, and it is through compassion's sympathetic resonance with the Earth and all who dwell therein that we may yet evolve, and give Life a chance before we extinguish the life and beauty of our planet Earth and become even less human than we are already with cloned animals and genetically engineered crops.
- Michael W. Fox, in a personal communication on March 11, 2010.

Andrew Masondo
Understand the differences; act on the commonalities.
- Andrew Masondo, African National Congress.

Pisces mortui solum cum flumine natant.
(Only dead fish go with the flow.)

Celia Kitzinger
Feminist understandings of power have shifted from unitary notions of something bad when men have it and something good when women have it, towards recognition of its multiple levels of operation. Power is not something we have. but something we swim in, a matter of discourse and practice rather than quantity."
- Celia Kitzinger, "Feminism Psychology and the Paradox of Power," in Feminism and Psychology, Volume I, 1991.

Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
- Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, We thank Mark Singer for making us aware of this quote.

Yoav Peck
The grass is always greener where you water it.
- Yoav Peck

Rollo May
Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
- Rollo May. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

John Tarrant
Compassion is something that needs to be encouraged, like an endangered species, perhaps.
- John Tarrant. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Lao Tzu
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Irwin Corey
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
- Irwin Corey. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Mark Nepo
To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
- Mark Nepo. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Barbara De Angelis
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
- Barbara De Angelis. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Ursula LeGuin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula LeGuin. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

J.E. Buckrose
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded, it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again – this is the brave and happy life. – J.E. Buckrose, author (1868-1931). We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Emmet Fox
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you.
– Emmet Fox, spiritual leader (1886-1951). We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoonv. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Robert Schuller
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
- Robert Schuller. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Hermann Hesse
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
- Hermann Hesse. We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Alexander Pope
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
– Alexander Pope, British poet (1688-1744). We thank Yoav Peck for making us aware of this quote.

Frederic Bastiat
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), French economist. We thank Rodrigue Tremblay for this quote.

Steven Weinberg
I think that on balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg, 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics. We thank Rodrigue Tremblay for this quote.

Henry Ford
It is well enough that people ... do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford, American industrialist. We thank Rodrigue Tremblay for this quote.

Dave Ramsey
We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.
— Dave Ramsey. We thank Ardian Adžanela for this quote.

Diogenes
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world
- Diogenes (412-323 BCE), we thank Anthony Marsella for making us aware of this quote.

In women, courage is often mistaken for insanity
- Doctor in Iron Jawed Angels (2004 film about the American women's suffrage movement during the 1910s). We thank Linda Hartling for making us aware of this quote.

Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
- Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. we thank Mark Singer for making us aware of this quote.

Albert Einstein
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
- Albert Einstein. We thank Mark Singer for making us aware of this quote.

Many Faiths, One Religion
- Rig Veda, Gandhi, Kant in Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone. We thank Mark Singer for making us aware of this quote.

Immanuel Kant
The spirit of commerce, which is incompatible with war, sooner or later gains the upper hand in every state. As the power of money is perhaps the most dependable of all the powers (means) included under the state power, states see themselves forced, without any moral urge, to promote honorable peace and by mediation to prevent war wherever it threatens to break out.
- Immanuel Kant, in Perpetual Peace. We thank Mark Singer for making us aware of this quote.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese proverb, reference Barbara Bailey Reinhold, Ed.D. (1996). Toxic Work: How to Overcome Stress Overload, and Burnout and Revitalize your Career. New York: Plume, p. 97. We thank Linda Hartling for making us aware of this quote.

George Eliot
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
- George Eliot, Middlemarch. We thank Zuzana Luckay for making us aware of this quote.

Günter Grass
Truth exists nearly always in the plural.
- Günter Grass iIn a poem written for his Nobel Prize speech, December 7, 1999. We thank Donna Hicks for making us aware of this quote.

Kofi Annan
Let us remember that the most expensive peacekeeping operation costs far less than the cheapest war.
- Kofi Annan. We thank Sylvester Lahai for making us aware of this quote.

Gregory Baum
True dialogue takes place only among equals, for the master will listen only as long as his/her power remains intact, and the servant will limit his communication to which he/she cannot be punished.
- Gregory Baum. We thank Mark Singer for making us aware of this quote.

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