Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the sc

What one has to do usually can be done.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Friends, you and me you brought another friend and then there were three we started our group our circle of friends and like that circle there is no beginning or end.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

No one can hurt you without your consent.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

All of life is a constant education.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway

It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found my friends among all races and religions of people.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women has to offer is shunted aside without expression.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their differing areas of concern for the welfare of their families and their world. Too often the great decisions are.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived,

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Pat was a different person. She asked about the children in the hospital, the food, their medical care, education. I liked her very much. She was always what I expected a president's wife to be. She was really down to earth, good to everyone in the Embassy, all the staff.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music that would be rest.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby

Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate

18th Century English poet 

’T is true,’t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.

Reason’s whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words health, peace, and competence.

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! Where is thy victory? O death! Where is thy sting?

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state.

I never knew any man in my life that could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian’s so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.

Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.’T is more by art than force of num’rous strokes.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, and greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, what bosom beats not in his country’s cause?

Stuff the head, With all such reading as was never read: For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.’T is not enough no harshness gives offence — The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice — A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind, Man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules — Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found — Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

let God be known

Let the full number of the nations now take their place in the family of the patriarchs. Let the children of the promise now receive the blessing in the seed of Abraham, the blessing renounced by the children of his flesh. In the persons of the Magi let all people adore the Creator of the universe; let God be known, not in Judea only, but in the whole world, so that his name may be great in all Israel

We don't have to protect the environment; the Second Coming is at hand

(1736-1848)

(The Scottish instrument maker who turned to make high pressure steam engines.)

We don't have to protect the environment; the Second Coming is at hand

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns

It encompasses practically every form and every style and every technique starting from the 13th century all the way down to the 18^th

One of the chief considerations of the decorative arts galleries was that they should be suitable for the display of textiles, and for this initial exhibition we have chosen mainly textiles from the 15th through the 17th centuries

He seemed to have a fascination with this stuff, we don't know, really, what he was up to. There was some pretty strange writing

Hidden nature is secret God.

(1872-1950)

(Freedom fighter, yogi guru, philosopher) 

Hidden nature is secret God.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

The power of many working together is better

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo - Philippine President

We mourn with the world the passing of Pope John Paul II. His death brings to all a deep sense of grief and loss. He was a holy champion of the Filipino family and of the profound Christian values that make everyone of us contemplate, everyday, what is just, moral and sacred in life

“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.”

“There is no calling in life nobler than to serve the people of one's nation in pursuit of the Jeffersonian ideal of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." I, for one, feel privileged every day, every single day to be able to serve the people of the Philippines and to be associated with democrats like you from all over the world.”

“did not witness any distribution of bribes.”

“The issue here is not political. Hence, politics should take the back seat here,”

“We're waiting for emotions to subside, and we hope that the opposition will go back to their seats so we can proceed with the debate and hopefully with the voting,”               

“link the entire country through a network of transport infrastructure.”

“All of us are mentally and physically exhausted,”

“The Filipino people mark a glorious day in history, when instead of forcing a president out of office through people power, they chose to keep a president through voting in the halls of constitutional democracy,”

A brazen act of terrorism which shall not go unpunished.”

“If we want to solve this problem as soon as we can, it is urgent,”

“It's his call, not mine,”

                       

“so far has been doing a good job.”

“terrorism in southwest Philippines.”

“Many people may think the soldiers are there to do combat,”

                                               

“It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change,”

“This is neither a political ploy nor a gimmick. I believe that this process will quickly lay the foundation for deep reforms in our society.”

                                               

“They are scum and we will get them,”

“We are happy enough with the majority”

I think we have a comfortable cushion to push worthwhile legislation.”

 “We have a strategic framework for fighting terrorism, and it is a framework our officials are discussing with the United States. Both countries are looking at this framework and looking at where the partnership in fighting terrorism domestically, regionally and globally can become more effective.”

 “War is never one-sided so my reaction to all this is that as a government we cannot be blackmailed.”

                                               

“We can now declare dividends from the coconut levy funds to benefit our coconut farmers,”

“We shall enhance our strategic relationship with the U.S. through continuing training exercises to sharpen the Filipino soldiers capability to move and communicate to fix and finish off their targets,”

                       

 “I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the Lord Almighty for his blessings,”

“His health is good, his spirits high and he sends best wishes to every Filipino for their thoughts and prayers.”

“I'm not worried. I'm in control,”

“There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested,”

“One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again,”

The underlying logic is that we cannot further integrate and consolidate as an economic bloc if we do not secure the ramparts of our own neighborhood,”

                         

“any member of her administration was involved in this.”

                                               

“In 1995, our police officers were able to arrest some people who were linked to both and uncovered documentary evidence that led to the conviction of the first bombers of the World Trade Center”

                                                 

“While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together,”

                                     

“We have the evidence, we have the proof , this was a carefully planned rebellion,”      

There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, You have already defamed the uniform. Do not drench it with dishonor.”                                  

In the past, the military always had to hold their fire because of the hostages. Now they can really be in hot pursuit, and they're doing that,”

                                               

“I hope they will not provoke me to declare martial law,”

I tolerated the protests for six days, which shows I have respect for human rights,”

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

(1820-1910)

Also known as the ‘Lady with the lamp.’ She was a devoted British nurse who reformed the nursing profession and was the first woman to receive the Other of Merit (1907).

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

you must always equip yourself through training and sharpening your skill all the time

(1903-73)

First Prime Minister of  Malaysia

In addition, you must always equip yourself through training and sharpening your skill all the time,

It is not a requirement that ministers must hold party positions,

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

 ( 1917-1963)

One of the most popular Presidents of USÂ

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

   

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

   

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

   

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

   

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

   

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

   

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

     

Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.

     

Probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

   

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Now the trumpet summons us again not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

   

I look foreword to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word.

(1694-1778)

Voltaire, a great French literary figure, was a popularizer of the science of Newton. He is most famous for his novel Candide

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

Give me the children

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”

“Religion is the Opiate of the Masses.”

“‎There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all life is too short to be anything but happy.”

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”

“Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”

“Question everything.”

“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.”

“Democracy is the road to socialism.”

“I am nothing but I must be everything.”

“Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.”

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!”

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

“Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough...”

“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?”

“To be radical is to grasp things by the root. ”

“They don't know it, but they are doing it.”

“All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”

“Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.”

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”

“The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.”

“Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.”

“The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.”

“All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”

 “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”

“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”

“The way people get their living determines their social outlook.”

“Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.”

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”

“Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

 “Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice

“Die Religion...ist das Opium des Volkes”

“Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.”

“Moments are the elements of profit”

“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”

 “Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”

“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.”

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.”

“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.”

“Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life”

 “Ser radical é tomar as coisas pela raiz. Mas, para o homem, a raiz é o próprio homem.”

“Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.

Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society.

But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.”

“Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.”

“If constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.”

“People make their own history, but not in conditions of their own making.”

It is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.”

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

“Philosophy has only interpreted the world in a variety of ways. The point, however, is to change it.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles

Philosophers have tried to describe the world -- the point is to change it

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits

“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man—state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo”

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.

In its rational form [dialectic] is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors, because it includes in its comprehension and affirmative recognition of the existing state of things, at the same time also, the recognition of the negation of that state, of its inevitable breaking up; because it regards every historically developed social form as in fluid movement, and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence because it lets nothing impose upon it, and is in its essence critical and revolutionary

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

Workers be unite can't loose anything but their chain

Since the mass of the employed living labour is continually on the decline as compared to the mass of materialised labour set in motion by it, i.e., to the productively consumed means of production, it follows that the portion of living labour, unpaid and congealed in surplus-value, must also be continually on the decrease compared to the amount of value represented by the invested total capital. Since the ratio of the mass of surplus-value to the value of the invested total capital forms the rate of profit, this rate must constantly fall

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it.

Religion is opium for the people.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past

All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice

Such a crises occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments,

and an artificial system of settling them, has been fully

developed. Whenever there is a general and extensive disturbance

of this mechanism, no matter what its cause, money becomes

suddenly and immediately transformed from its merely ideal shape

of money of account into hard cash. Profane commodities can no

longer replace it. The use-value of commodities becomes

valueless, and their value vanishes in the presence of its own

independent form. On the eve of the crisis, the bourgeois, with

the self-sufficiency that springs from intoxicating prosperity,

declares money to be a vain imagination. Commodities alone are

money. But now the cry is everywhere that money alone is a

commodity! As the hart pants after fresh water, so pants his soul

after money, the only wealth.

All working men of countries unite.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that we think a thing is ours only when we have it

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.”

Manpower without Unity is not a strength

It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country

is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now

forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that

he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain

duties.

My only desire is that India should be a good producer and no one

should be hungry, shedding tears for food in the country.

Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we

should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.

Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonised and

united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles

has always remained the abode of great souls.

We should shoulder our responsibility by ourselves, and understand

the people to takeover these responsibilities.We should not depend

upon the Government by understanding the real situation

Mother, I bow to thee

“Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy winds of delight, Green fields waving , Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight dreams, Over thy branches and lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease, Laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow.”

Patriotism is religion and religion is love for India.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

A drop from the nose of Fleming, who had a cold, fell onto an agar plate where large yellow colonies of a contaminant had grown, and lysosyme was discovered. He made this important discovery because when he saw that the colonies of the contaminant were fading, his mind went straight to the right cause of the phenomenon he was observing—that the drop from his nose contained a lytic substance. And also immediately, he thought that this substance might be present in many secretions and tissues of the body. And he found this was so—the substance was in tears, saliva, leucocytes, skin, fingernails, mother's milk—thus very widely distributed in amounts and also in plants.

A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime—it’s not very scientific, but it helps.

Response when questioned about the common cold.

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this—never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be—usually is, in fact—a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram-negative bacilli, and the most susceptible are the pyogenic cocci ... In addition to its possible use in the treatment of bacterial infections penicillin is certainly useful... for its power of inhibiting unwanted microbes in bacterial cultures so that penicillin insensitive bacteria can readily be isolated.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

While working with staphylococcus variants a number of culture-plates were set aside on the laboratory bench and examined from time to time. In the examinations these plates were necessarily exposed to the air and they became contaminated with various micro-organisms. It was noticed that around a large colony of a contaminating mould the staphylococcus colonies became transparent and were obviously undergoing lysis. Subcultures of this mould were made and experiments conducted with a view to ascertaining something of the properties of the bacteriolytic substance which had evidently been formed in the mould culture and which had diffused into the surrounding medium. It was found that broth in which the mould had been grown at room temperature for one or two weeks had acquired marked inhibitory, bacteriocidal and bacteriolytic properties to many of the more common pathogenic bacteria.