G Gaia Famous Quotes
"The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity."
G Gaia Quotations
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
Amos Bronson Alcott
"If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money
Ayn Rand
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes."
Zelda
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it
Henry Miller
"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."
Pearl Bailey
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it."
Lois McMaster Bujold