Will It Change You ?

Too many people are only willing to defend rights that are personally important to them. It’s selfish ignorance, and it’s exactly why totalitarian governments are able to get away with trampling on people. Freedom does not mean freedom just for the things I think I should be able to do. Freedom is for all of us. If people will not speak up for other people’s rights, there will come a day when they will lose their own. – Tony Lawrence

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” Brian Littrell

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” Mark Victor Hansen

“The beginning is always today.” – Mary Wollstonecraft

“Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I’m dying and I’m having fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day, because there’s no other way to play it.”
– Randy Pausch

“The more you believe in something, the more you will experience it. For instance, if you think people are generally evil and the kind who will take advantage of you, well, then you will experience that! If you believe the world is mostly made up of good, honorable people, then that’s what you’ll have in your life. It’s an energy thing – like attracts like.”
– Stephen Hopson

 

Political Quotes

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H.L. Mencken

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word ‘no’. Winston Churchill
Too many people are only willing to defend rights that are personally important to them. It’s selfish ignorance, and it’s exactly why totalitarian governments are able to get away with trampling on people. Freedom does not mean freedom just for the things I think I should be able to do. Freedom is for all of us. If people will not speak up for other people’s rights, there will come a day when they will lose their own. – Tony Lawrence

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. – Bertrand de Jouvenel

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Ben Franklin, 1755

A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him. – Rosellen Brown

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. Abraham Lincoln

‘Reform’ is a word you always aughta’ watch out for. ‘Reform’ is a change that you’re supposed to like. And watch it – As soon as you hear the word ‘Reform’, you [should] reach for your wallet and see who’s lifting it. – Noam Chomsky

A politician thinks of the next election – a statesman of the next generation. – James Freeman Clarke
When the law’s on your side, pound the law. When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. And when neither is on your side, pound the table. – Unknown

True Terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber – Plato

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President — I’m beginning to believe it. – Clarence Darrow

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)

“To see what is in front of one´s nose requires a constant struggle.”

—George Orwell, 1946

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe