"And war-the worst form of evil!"

-- Theodore Parker

#War Quotes #Evil Quotes #Form Quotes

“The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.”

Source : Schindler's List, www.imdb.com. 1993.
“It makes me happy when my sons come home and tell me, 'We bumped into Donatella and she says hi.”

Source : "Stephanie Seymour: Mum's the Word" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 09, 2014.
“Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, principles, and social order, but don't all the other animals have them too, granted the difference of degree? Perhaps the animals even have religions. Man boasts of being the lord of all creation, but it would seem as if essentially he does not differ in the least from other animals. But, Mother, there was one way I thought of. Perhaps you won't understand. It's a faculty absolutely unique to man - having secrets. Can you see what I mean?”
“If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.”
“A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.”
“The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.”
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”
“You lose nothing by being polite. The answer is 'No', but please say it politely and give the reasons. ... Explain to me why 'No'. Don't change 'No' to 'Yes'. Don't be a fool. If there was a good reason why it is 'No', it must remain 'No', but the man must be told politely.”

You may also like:

Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
Amos Bronson Alcott
Writer
George Ripley
Journalist
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Margaret Fuller
Journalist
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil rights activist
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
William Ellery Channing
Preacher
William Lloyd Garrison
Journalist