QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thich Nhat Hahn, T.S. Eliot, Lord Acton, Cesar Chavez, hucydides, Albert Camus, Lao Tsu, Thomas Merton, Ramman Kenoun, Fredric Bastiat, Michael Gillespie, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams.

• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
  ~Thomas Alva Edison
  
  
• The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  

• All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
  ~Eleanor Roosevelt (from "My Day," February 7, 1939)
  
  
• Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
  ~Thich Nhat Hahn
  
  
• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
  ~T.S. Eliot
  
  
• Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control.
  ~Lord Acton
  
  
• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
  ~Lord Acton
  
  
• Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
  ~Cesar Chavez
  
  
• It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position...
  ~Thucydides (Thucydides was a Athenian historian, born in the 5th century, BC. Here, he is quoting the Athenian general Nikias on the proposed invasion of Sicily during the Peloponnesian War.)
  
  
• When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.
  ~Albert Camus
  
  
• Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
  ~Lao Tsu
  
  
• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war.
  ~Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
  
  
• A tyrant has succeeded in his search for absolute power when his own people fear to question his actions.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• When goods don't cross borders, soldiers will.
  ~Fredric Bastiat
  
  
• Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power.
  ~Michael Gillespie (This quote is from the period he served as a US Congressman (he represented Virginia from 1789-1797).)
  
  
• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
  ~Thomas Jefferson (Originally in a letter to William C. Jarvis, 1820. Can be found in volume of "Writings" (New York, NY: Library of America) p.493)
  
  
• This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
  ~Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to John Adams, 1796.)
  
  

 

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