Don’t feel obliged to stick to the 5-formula, but if you have a quote that’s been provoking thought lately, I’d love to hear it.
“We do not possess the right to exercise compassion on whom we choose, but the ability to choose to be compassionate…”
I’ve enjoyed that quote for some time now.
“I don’t get to choose how I hurt or how much I hurt. Reconciling that is one of the hardest things I will ever do.”
I always enjoy that one.
Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.
five that are interesting
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded states of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of men greater than himself. -John Stuart Mill
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? -Mahatma Gandhi
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. -Bertrand Russell
You must honor and obey and reconciliate your country when angry…you must either persuade her, or do whatever she commands; you must bear in quiet anything she bids you to bear, be it strips or prison; or if she leads you to war, to be wounded or to die, this you must do, and it is just that this should be so. -Plato (Crito)
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Five Thought-Provoking Quotes I Like Lately
Fri 11/21/08
1. “I have no belief in the virtue or durability of official philosophies, and when it comes to state religions, I have always thought that, though they may perhaps sometimes momentarily serve the interests of political power, they are always sooner or later fatal for the church.” — Alexis de Tocqueville
2. “Language. It’s all about Language. You want me help you with your marketing, you have to be willing to talk to me about Language.” — Hugh MacLeod
3. “If you have momentum and you don’t know why—you are one stupid decision away from killing it.” — Andy Stanley
4. “He raised a half a billion online…I don’t believe that Obama would have ever been able to become president in the era before the Internet. And I don’t believe the implications of that have yet to fully sink in.” — Andrew Sullivan
5. “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” — Joseph Priestly