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“You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.”
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“A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.”
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“The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.”
Source : Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7
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“I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball. They're the three most beautifully designed things this culture has ever produced.”
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“Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you.”
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“Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.”
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“Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism”
Source : "Collected works of Thanthai Periyar E.V. Ramasami". Book published by Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution, p. 49, 1981.
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“The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred and be respected. This belief forms the basis of the doctrine of ahimsa, which has been translated into English variously as "reverence for life," "nonviolence," and "dynamic compassion."”
Source : Nathaniel Altman (1994). “Sacred Trees”, Random House (NY)
