" Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We are always getting ready to live but never living." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥12SharePinTweet2 SharesHappinessPositive
" Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Some books leave us free and some books make us free." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet6 Shares
" Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥29SharePinTweet1 SharesWomen
" Go put your creed into the deed, Nor speak with double tongue. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
