"The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!"

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#War Quotes #Believe Quotes #Simple Quotes

“I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
“It definitely feels like I'm sort of reaching people through social media in the right kind of way. I feel like I've been late to the game with the whole Facebook/Twitter thing, because I always thought it was cheap. But, when I started really using it and trying to be myself when using it, which is the hardest thing. I feel like a lot of people are really responding to that.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
“Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.”

Source : "The Silent Language". Book by Edward T. Hall, 1959.
“Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.”

Source : William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.231
“Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.”
“Think of the ills from which you are exempt.”
“When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization, and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature. To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life.”

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