Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-10-20 Oct 20, 2003Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.~ Lao-TzuI would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.~ Rabbi Harold KushnerWe must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas Oct 17, 2003Freedom is not worth living if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that previous right.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiOnce one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiYou must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Oct 16, 2003Not to be, but to seem, virtuous -- it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.~ C. S. LewisIt is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.~ C. S. LewisFor who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?~ C. S. Lewis Oct 15, 2003A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.~ Barry GoldwaterNow those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.~ Barry GoldwaterExtremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.~ Barry Goldwater Oct 14, 2003The ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.~ Albert EinsteinGreat spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert EinsteinEverything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.~ Albert Einstein Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print