I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. - Anatole France
"I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other" - Jet Li
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. - Jean-Paul Sartre
"There is a fine line between Insanity and Madness; Insanity is simply when/where one has completely completely lost their mind. Madness, on the other hand, is where you end up after going so deep into Insanity, that you come out on the other side."
~~ ((I am still trying to remember who first said this one, too.))
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. - Aldous Huxley
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” – William of Ockham.
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. - P. D. James
“In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess ~~ we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all”
― Starhawk
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. - E. M. Forster
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." ~~ Nelson Mandela
“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”
Benjamin Franklin
"A man moved by nothing is not a man, but a rock."
~~ Taoist Monks
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? - Franz Kafka
"The Cold Shadow is My Name, For in My Presence Dwindle The Blazing Flame"
~~ Unknown
During war, the laws are silent. - Quintus Tullius Cicero
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
When your heart is broken a thousand times, with every moment, there's been enough...
When the demon inside you is ready to begin, and there is nothing left inside, there is still a reason to fight.
~~ David Draiman
"I do not worship their devil. Nor do I worship their other gods--Jesus, Jehovah, the Holy Spirit--but I respect them, for all gods are One. I worship the Great Mother, the one many call Diana, whose secret name the inquisitors shall never know. If this makes me a witch by their definition--very well then, I am a witch, just as surely as they are Christians and murderers."
-Jeanne Kalogridis
I was arrested three times and tortured once. - Paulo Coelho
"Shooting me is not going to do you any good. You will need more than guns to stop Me."
~~ Alucard; Hellsing
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. - Herman Melville
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company"
— Mark Twain
It isn't the darkness you should fear... but what lies within the darkness that you should.
{{I can't remember the origin.}}
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. - Plato
"There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise."
ANNE FORTIER
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. - Aldous Huxley
"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life." - Corazon Aquino
“If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” – Zanele Muholi
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow
It's easy to be right all the time, when everything repeats.
~~ Trivium
"And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed."
Robin McKinley
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. - Alexander Pope
“It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?”
― Amy Neftzger
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up this whole world.
~~ Nikola Tesla