"The smell of a world that is burned"
- Jimi Hendrix
“Power at its most vicious is a riposte to powerlessness.”
- Simone de Beauvoir
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
- Eleanor Roosevelt (italics ar mine)
"Sure he (Fred Astaire) was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ...backwards and in high heels.”
- Bob Thaves, “Frank and Ernest” comic strip
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"And nothing natural is evil"
-Marcus Aurelius
"The unexamined life is not worth living"
"Let he that would move the world first move himself"
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate"
- Socrates
(These seem to be my call signs. Incredible.)
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
- George Santayana
"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"And that's the thing
Do you recognize the bell of truth
When you hear it ring"
-Leon Russell
"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
-Lord Byron
"I've got some words to say about the way we live today.
Why can't we learn to love each other.
It's time to learn a new face for the whole world wide human race."
-Leon Russell
"We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle
(Boy, does that apply)
"A little learning is a dangerous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring"
-Alexander Pope
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky
"I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken"
-Bob Dylan
"One who asks a question feels like a fool for a moment. One who refuses to ask a question feels a fool for a lifetime." Or, a sentient race remains a fool for millennia.
-Japanese proverb (just the quotation part)
Humanity remains a dilettante at sentience, a poser. We're on the threshold of something more, something human.
The human race is doing a fine job of acting like an animal with too much brains and no sense. When will the human race begin acting like a human with love in its heart and sense in its head?
It's not about the individual being human. It is about the human race being human.