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"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

76 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,649 people liked it

"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness
484 people liked it

"Little by little, one travels far"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

105 people liked it

"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

64 people liked it

"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Children of Húrin)

79 people liked it

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo)

tags: humor, proverb
2,080 people liked it

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life
775 people liked it

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
— Terry Pratchett

560 people liked it

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
581 people liked it

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
— Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

tags: humor, science
440 people liked it

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life
254 people liked it

"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
— Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures)

tags: humor, life, movies
150 people liked it

"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."
— Terry Pratchett (Mort)

tags: death, humor
139 people liked it

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."
— Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

tags: death, humor
138 people liked it

"She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you."
— Terry Pratchett (Equal Rites)

113 people liked it

"Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs."
— Terry Pratchett (Wyrd Sisters)

tags: destiny, religion
85 people liked it

"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."
— Andy Rooney

tags: growth, happiness, inspiration
35 people liked it

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."
— Horace Mann

tags: conflict, growth, intelligence, knowledge, opinion
9 people liked it

"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
— Edward Abbey

tags: politics
70 people liked it

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
— Edward Abbey

60 people liked it

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
— Edward Abbey

32 people liked it

"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
— Edward Abbey

tags: truth
16 people liked it

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Edward Abbey

28 people liked it

"Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow."
— Anthony Robbins

tags: gift, growth, inspirational, problems
7 people liked it

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: inspirational
350 people liked it

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell

tags: language, politics
233 people liked it

"Writing a book is a horrible,
exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
— George Orwell

tags: writing
84 people liked it

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
— George Orwell

tags: military
82 people liked it

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
— George Orwell

tags: generations, intelligence, wisdom
82 people liked it

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

74 people liked it

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
— George Orwell

tags: war-mongering
31 people liked it

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
— George Orwell

29 people liked it

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
— Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
96 people liked it

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics
133 people liked it

"Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down"
— Malcolm X

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
45 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,866 people liked it

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
— Malcolm X (By Any Means Necessary)

tags: philosophy, politics
452 people liked it

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
— Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth
192 people liked it

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. "
— Malcolm X

64 people liked it

"So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise."
— Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X)

48 people liked it

"Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."
— Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley)

34 people liked it

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
— Malcolm X

38 people liked it

"How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?"
— Malcolm X

36 people liked it

""If you're not ready to die for it, take the
word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.""
— Malcolm X

42 people liked it

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"The media's the most powerful entity on earth.
They have the power to make the innocent guilty
and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.
Because they control the minds of the masses.""
— Malcolm X

26 people liked it

""I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but i don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but i'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment" "
— Malcolm X

17 people liked it

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today "
— Malcolm X

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"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

tags: funny, humour
1,000 people liked it

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
— Groucho Marx

tags: classic-insult
396 people liked it

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