A new hobby of mine is finding powerful quotes. Here are some of my favorite quotes:
As Martin Luther king said, "You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism."-Martin Luther King, Jr. * Speech to his staff, Frogmore, S.C. (November, 14, 1966
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon those with great vengeance and with furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know that my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee." -Jules
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” -Walt Whitman“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” - Friedrich Nietzsche"
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth." Nietzsche
"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe." - The Odyssey
"They can because they think they can." - Virgil
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed." - Walt Whitman
"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me." - Walt Whitman
As you can see, I am a fan of Walt Whitman. There is just a freshness to his writing that I don't read everyday.
05 December 2008
What are your favorite quotations?
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martin luther king,
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