Famous quotes by Authors

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The universe is wider than our views of it"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"No man was ever great by imitation"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature"

Camille Paglia, Author

"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism because of our excesses"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia"

George Orwell, Author

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship"

George Orwell, Author

"Serious sport is war minus the shooting"

George Orwell, Author

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship"

George Orwell, Author

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