How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings? Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
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Quote:- How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos, scattering the stars like spangles and leave you in the open - free like other men to look up, as well as down. And it must be remembered that the most purely practical science does take this view of mental evil. It does not seek to argue with it like a heresy, but simply to slap it like a spell. Neither modern science nor ancient religion believes in complete free thought. Theology rebukes certain thoughts by calling them blasphemous. Science rebukes certain thoughts by calling them morbid.
Orthodoxy
Author:- G.K. Chesterton
Category:- science
Quote:- How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yoursWill make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.When once you hear the roses are in bloom,Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.
Author:- Omar Khayyám
Category:- time
Quote:- How much of your life had been happenstance? How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky? But then, weren’t all lives that way? Who could say, in the end, that they had chosen any of it?
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Author:- Gabrielle Zevin
Category:- Life
Quote:- How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
The Age of Miracles
Author:- Karen Thompson Walker
Category:- time
Quote:- How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.
False Memory
Author:- Dean Koontz
Category:- time
Quote:- How often do you turn down experiences or opportunities solely because they came up at an ‘inopportune’ time?
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- time,motivational
Quote:- How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
The Roving Mind
Author:- Isaac Asimov
Category:- science
Quote:- How perfect it would be If we held each other Away from the dancefloor And fought all of the monsters From our sleep
Sapling: The Beginner's Guide to the Art of Modern Poetry
Author:- Kelsey Webb
Category:- Love
Quote:- How precious it is to find someone who brings with them a Feeling of home.
Author:- Affinity Soul
Category:- Love
Quote:- How precious it is to find someone who brings with them the feeling of home.
Author:- Affinity Soul
Category:- Love
Quote:- How preposterous and ruthless time is; just a slight hesitation, and it will strip your life down. You will be left heartbroken, and there will be no turning back.
镇魂
Author:- priest
Category:- time
Quote:- How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.
Tomorrow
Author:- Graham Swift
Category:- inspiration,time
Quote:- How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.
The Story of a New Name
Author:- Elena Ferrante
Category:- time
Quote:- How rich or poor we are...depends on whom and what we compare with.
Author:- Venu CV
Category:- Life
Quote:- How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.
Letters to a Young Poet
Author:- Rainer Maria Rilke
Category:- poetry
Quote:- How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
Author:- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
Author:- Toni Morrison
Category:- inspiration