Some of my favourite Quotations
Inspired by my friend’s David’s blog afloatinfalmouth.blogspot.com, this is a posting of some of my favourite quotes.
“Many of the people in Sheffield or Manchester, if they smelled the air along the Cornish cliffs, would probably declare that it had no taste in it.”
George Orwell on the North/South divide in ‘The road to Wigan Pier’ 1937
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“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the act of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
Aldous Huxley ‘Island’ 1962
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“There is one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve. The fear of failure.”
Paulo Coehlo ‘The Alchemist’
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“The more we pursue material improvement, ignoring the contentment that comes from inner growth, the faster ethical values will disappear from our communities. Then we all experience unhappiness in the long run, for when there is no place for justice and honesty in people’s hearts, the weak are the first to suffer. And the resentments resulting from such inequality ultimately affects everyone adversely”
The Dalai Lama 2002
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“Society compels you to do certain things and prohibits you from doing others. It forces you to pay taxes, and support it whether you want to or not. It makes you don a uniform, and join an army. It invades your personal life, orders you about, prescribes your behaviour, and generally treats you as it pleases. It tells you even what you must believe, and punishes you for thinking or acting otherwise.”
Alexander Berkman ‘ABC of Anarchism’ 1929
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“All forms of political organisation has a bias in favour of the exploitation of some kinds of conflict and the suppression of others, because organisation is the mobilisation of bias. Some issues are organised into politics, while others are organised out.”
E E Schattschneider 1960
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Lastly here some more positive anonymous quotes, most of whom I have rizla’s to thank for:
“Life isn’t about living up to everyone else’s expectations. It’s about living up to your own”
“Life can never be a competition, if we start and end at different times.”
“Seeing opportunities is the secret to realising them.”
“Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
“The greatest rewards are less likely to make you rich.”
“Once you’ve climbed one mountain, others don’t seem so bad.”
“There’s no such thing as madness, just different degrees of normality.”
“Think only what you choose to experience. Say only what you choose to make real. Do only what you choose to demonstrate as your highest reality.”
“Many of the people in Sheffield or Manchester, if they smelled the air along the Cornish cliffs, would probably declare that it had no taste in it.”
George Orwell on the North/South divide in ‘The road to Wigan Pier’ 1937
xxxx
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the act of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
Aldous Huxley ‘Island’ 1962
xxxx
“There is one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve. The fear of failure.”
Paulo Coehlo ‘The Alchemist’
xxxx
“The more we pursue material improvement, ignoring the contentment that comes from inner growth, the faster ethical values will disappear from our communities. Then we all experience unhappiness in the long run, for when there is no place for justice and honesty in people’s hearts, the weak are the first to suffer. And the resentments resulting from such inequality ultimately affects everyone adversely”
The Dalai Lama 2002
xxxx
“Society compels you to do certain things and prohibits you from doing others. It forces you to pay taxes, and support it whether you want to or not. It makes you don a uniform, and join an army. It invades your personal life, orders you about, prescribes your behaviour, and generally treats you as it pleases. It tells you even what you must believe, and punishes you for thinking or acting otherwise.”
Alexander Berkman ‘ABC of Anarchism’ 1929
xxxx
“All forms of political organisation has a bias in favour of the exploitation of some kinds of conflict and the suppression of others, because organisation is the mobilisation of bias. Some issues are organised into politics, while others are organised out.”
E E Schattschneider 1960
xxxx
Lastly here some more positive anonymous quotes, most of whom I have rizla’s to thank for:
“Life isn’t about living up to everyone else’s expectations. It’s about living up to your own”
“Life can never be a competition, if we start and end at different times.”
“Seeing opportunities is the secret to realising them.”
“Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
“The greatest rewards are less likely to make you rich.”
“Once you’ve climbed one mountain, others don’t seem so bad.”
“There’s no such thing as madness, just different degrees of normality.”
“Think only what you choose to experience. Say only what you choose to make real. Do only what you choose to demonstrate as your highest reality.”
