Quote for Today: Chief Luther Standing Bear
From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things—the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals—and …
Quote for Today: George Eliot
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. ―George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Middlemarch
Quote for Today: Robert Green Ingersoll
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur …
Quote for Today: Jess C. Scott
I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to …
Quote for Today: Desmond Tutu
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ―Desmond Tutu
Quote for Today: Sinclair Lewis
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure …
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and …