"The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality."

-- Gouverneur Morris

#Writing Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Men Quotes

“A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.325
“I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think there is anything sacred in the integrity of race, white or black.”

Source : Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker (1974). “A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker”, Howard Univ Pr
“I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?”
“What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.”
“Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.”

Source : Song: Attitude, Album: Low Budget
“Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.”
“Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.”
“The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.”

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