QUOTES
-Animals-
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who
considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals
-- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
"Atrocities
are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical
research."
-Community
/ Volunteers-
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community,
and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can."
-Creativity-
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will
what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
-Ecology-
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to
adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the
efforts of unreasonable men.
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Economy-
The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous
is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their
importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities
have been thoroughly served.
Capitalism
drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do
the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to
both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far
without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places,
is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete
that everybody acts on strictly business principles.
Education
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in
pursuit of the child.
-Globalization-
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government
should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire
by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that
it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years
ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers
who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard
to the interest of the public.
-Health-
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
-Interconnection-
"Independence"... middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another,
every soul of us on earth.
We
are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without
injuring or helping yourself.
Leadership
I am not a teacher--only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed
ahead--ahead of myself as well as of you.
Living
a Life of Compassion
The
worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent
to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
I
tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot
be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for
it.
Do
not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may
not be the same.
-Patriotism-
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human
race.
-Peace-
"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous"
-Poverty-
"The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty."
Security,
the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the
danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head
-Vegetarian-
Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends.
"While
we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal
conditions on this earth?"
Other
Quotes
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples
then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have
an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
