"Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely."

-- Adam Michnik

#Life Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Believe Quotes

“The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.”
“Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.”

Source : Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.13, PublicAffairs
“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...”

Source : Banana Yoshimoto, Russell F. Wasden (1998). “Amrita”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.”
“I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.”
“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.”
“It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.”
“I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.”

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