Daily Quotation

"There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much: Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."

-Cyrus H. K. Curtis​

 

"The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

-H. L. Mencken​

 

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."

-George Bernard Shaw​

 

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.​

 

"The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work."

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe​

 

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

-Chinese Proverb​

 

"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."

-Arnold Bennett​

 

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."

-Mark Twain​

 

"I have wandered in a face for hours, passing through dark fires."

- Robert Bly

 

"To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

-George Bernard Shaw​

 

"I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones."

-Albert Einstein​

 

"I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't."

-Mark Twain​