A Few Doozy Inspiring Quotations

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** Quotations for Covid days/daze

“A man living outside the circle of delusion which imprisons most men has a question of everyone he meets, usually asked silently, ‘Can you get outside of yourself for even a split second to hear something you have never heard before?’ Those who hear will enter a new world.” – Khalil Gibran (quoted in the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. book The Real Anthony Fauci – Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, Chapter 5)

“The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.” – P.T. Barnum

“What luck for the rulers that the people do not think!” – Adolph Hitler

“Wonders never ceased. Nor, Duckworth thought, did the public’s willingness to be conned.” – from Parting Shot, a mystery novel by Linwood Barclay

“4 Rules for Life: Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don’t be attached to the results.” – Angeles Arrien, U.S. teacher, author (1940 – )

“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forbears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy, JFK

“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counter-intuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what is true.” – Carl Sagan

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” – Daniel Moynihan

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” – Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Thimerosal – Let the Science Speak, edited by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein * more Einstein quotes

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. ** lots more great MLK quotes

“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back – but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman

“I do not want to talk about what you understand about this world. I want to know what you will do about it. I do not want to know what you hope. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle.” – Robert Fulghum

“Only connect. This is how we make meaning. This is how we learn to think as Nature thinks.” – Gregory Bateson, anthropologist

“I still believe the model of the peaceful world is the potluck supper. Everyone can make a contribution, everyone can gain fellowship and nourishment, and we can all learn from one another.” – Ursula Franklin

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others ... it’s the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

“I want to tear this damned place [the Warsaw Ghetto] apart. But we are powerless, and it is pointless.” “Maybe playing a part in the Resistance isn’t even about winning a battle,” Elzbieta said, after a pause. “Maybe it’s just about being true to your values. About standing up for the things you believe and those you love, even if you know you can’t win.” & then, a bit later: “She had drawn the shape of a fist, painfully clenched, and underneath she had written ‘There are many ways to fight, but striving for justice is always worth the battle.’” – from The Warsaw Orphan, by Kelly Rimmer (2021)

"Every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety nor grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being." - Robert Anton Wilson "Every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety nor grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being." - Robert Anton Wilson

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the one most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” – Karen Kaiser Clark

** Lots of quotations for Covid days/daze

** Quotation collections on fear & evil.