Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-01-08 Jan 8, 2019To know the world one must construct it.~ Cesare PaveseLearn as much by writing as by reading.~ Lord ActonThe policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.~ Robert M. Hutchins Jan 7, 2019Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.~ John AdamsWhat children need is not new and better curriculum but access to more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them.~ John HoltUniversities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.~ Kingman Brewster Jan 4, 2019Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.~ Albert EinsteinThis is the sum of all true righteousness: deal with others as thou wouldst thyself be dealt by. Do nothing to thy neighbor which thou wouldst not have him do to thee hereafter.~ The Mahabharata Jan 3, 2019Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiIt is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work -- work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. ... We shall reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your makeup. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, not reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory? ... We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inauguration Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.~ Ronald ReaganFor, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.~ St. Paul Jan 2, 2019No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.~ Harold J. LaskiI know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.~ Antoine De Saint-ExuperyEach progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.~ Maurice Maeterlinck Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print