Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Man | Merit | Tragedy | Work |

Faith Popcorn, born Faith Plotkin

American is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy – how we buy it – we’ll change who we are.

Good | Happy | Kindness | Love | Miracles | Past | Prayer | Time |

Felix Adler

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Felix Adler

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

Achievement | Eternal | Life | Life | Power | Regard | Sorrow | Strength | Unity | Weakness | Understand |

Felix Adler

The symbols of religion are ciphers of which the key is to be found in moral experience. It is in vain we pore over the ciphers unless we possess the key.

Will |

Gustavo Gutiérrez

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.

Grave |

Hafiz, pen name of Shams-ud-din Muhammad NULL

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

Kindness |

Hannah Arendt

Clich‚s, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Hannah Arendt

Power corrupts... when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. The will to power... far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one.

Evil | Malice | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Of judgment everyone has a stock on hand for sale.

Adversity |

Italian Proverbs

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Ability | Coercion | Power |

Italian Proverbs

One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

Change | People | World | Think |

Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is great love there is great pain.

Good | People | Right |

Italian Proverbs

When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross.

Important | Self-knowledge | Truths |

Italian Proverbs

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Absence | Atheism | Awareness | Awe | Cause | Fortune | Good | Gratitude | Ideas | Important | Insight | Language | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Myth | Need | Nothing | Object | Power | Prosperity | Question | Reality | Religion | Reputation | Reverence | Right | Sacred | Sense | Truth | Understanding | World | Awareness | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

Water after does not quench a fire at hand.

Time | Unity | Think |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap.

Good | Public | Work |