"The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Men Quotes #Society Quotes #Atrocities Quotes

“True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.”

Source : Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain
“There are two ways through life: the way of Nature, and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things.”
“My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.”
“The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.”
“Money is merely a reward for solving problems.”
“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”

Source : Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.123, Copper Canyon Press
“You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.”
“Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.”

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