"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."

-- Mortimer Adler

#Thinking Quotes #Justice Quotes #Earth Quotes

“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. Itâ€™s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people wonâ€™t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf
“We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.”
“There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.”
“Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.”
“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.”
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
“Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.”

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