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- That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
- Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
- We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
- The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air…
- Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
- I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if…
- Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
- Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
- There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our…
- The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
- We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two…
- Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
- The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent,…
- For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
- Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
- The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
- Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and…
- The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters,…
- What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
- Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during…
- We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and…
- The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed.…
- We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and…
- There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of…
- The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth,…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong