The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.  Isaac Newton

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty. MOLIERE

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."  - Plato

What can't be cured must be endured.

Robert Burton

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cindy

I will not be silenced. I'm not leaving.  rosa parks
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.  rosa parks

Americans too often teach their children to despise those who hold unpopular opinions. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place - the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.

Mark Twain


Beverly

Too serious, here is one that I also use against bigots:

"You're so open minded, I can feel the breeze from here!" - Marx brothers

Many believe that the dawning Age of Light or Age of Consciousness defines itself in relation to our capacity for unconditional love, our ability to transcend enemy patterning and victim consciousness while adopting unity consciousness that sees divinity in all things. From this standpoint, it might be said humans are evolving into a "biologically conscious" species capable of holding and sharing the full light of unconditional love.

Sol Luckman

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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: "Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."

Dorothy Parker

Beverly

In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting – all these will be used as a means to this end.


Adolf Hitler

I hope he's burning in hell 

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Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Cindy

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Though it has been a topic of much attention in recent years, the origin of the term "terrorist" has gone largely unnoticed by politicians and pundits alike. The word was an invention of the French Revolution, and it referred not to those who hate freedom, nor to non-state actors, nor of course to "Islamofascism." A terroriste was, in its original meaning, a Jacobin leader who ruled France during la Terreur.

François Furstenberg


Beverly

I HAVE NO doubt that your acceptance of Christ coincided with some very positive changes in your life. Perhaps now you love other people in a way that you never imagined possible. You may even experience feelings of bliss while praying. I do not wish to denigrate any of these experiences. I would point out, however, that billions of other human beings, in every time and place, have had similar experiences--but they had them while thinking about Krishna, Allah, or the Buddha, while making art or music, or while contemplating the beauty of Nature. There is no question that it is possible for people to have profoundly transformative experiences. And there is no question that it is possible for them to misinterpret these experiences, and to further delude themselves about the nature of reality. You are, of course, right to believe that there is more to life than simply understanding the structure of contents of the universe. But this does not make unjustified (and unjustifiable) claims about its structure and contents any more respectable.

It is important to realize that the distinction between science and religion is not a matter of excluding our ethical intuitions and spiritual experiences from our conversation about the world; it is a matter of our being honest about what we can reasonably conclude on their basis. There are good reasons to believe that people like Jesus and the Buddha weren't talking nonsense when they spoke about our capacity as human beings to transform our lives in rare and beautiful ways. But any genuine exploration of ethics or the contemplative life demands the same standards of reasonableness and self-criticism that animate all intellectual discourse.

Sam Harris

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

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"We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places."
- Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man".

- Hunter S. Thompson.