Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

Klim Voroshilov

“Whoever can lift a rifle should have one”. –Klim Voroshilov

Louis Armstrong

“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is”. –Louis Armstrong

William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

James Monroe

“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers”. –James Monroe

John Diefenbaker

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

Henry Liddon

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

John Updike

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

John Bonham

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at”. –John Bonham

Matthew Arnold

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture”. –Matthew Arnold

Theodore Dreiser

“If I were to personally define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance”. –Theodore Dreiser

Julian Jaynes

“What is the meaning of life? This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself”. –Julian Jaynes

Woodrow Wilson

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

Phil Ochs

“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies”. –Phil Ochs

Elizabeth Gaskell

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues”. –Elizabeth Gaskell

Jaco Pastorius

“It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up”. –Jaco Pastorius

Apuleius

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

Hugh Kingsmill

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

Stefan Zweig

“The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them”. –Stefan Zweig

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Ingmar Bergman

“The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence”. –Ingmar Bergman

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

René Magritte

“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb”. –René Magritte

Roman Dmowski

“In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness”. –Roman Dmowski

Gregor Strasser

“We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism, and from the left socialism without internationalism”. –Gregor Strasser

Charles Péguy

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”. –Charles Péguy

Friedrich Klopstock

“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave”. –Friedrich Klopstock

Baltasar Gracián

“Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise”. –Baltasar Gracián

Karl Barth

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

James Naismith

“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief””. –James Naismith

Samuel Untermyer

“The Jews are the aristocrats of the world”. –Samuel Untermyer

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril”. –Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edith Cavell

“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me”. –Edith Cavell

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero