Quotes - Thabo (Pretoria, 06, South Africa) Showing 1-12 of 12

#1

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

78355 likes

#2

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: hate, love

8088 likes

#3

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: challanges

2925 likes

#4

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: education

2723 likes

#5

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: excellence, inspirational

1656 likes

#6

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: brotherhood, inspirational, wisdom

1044 likes

#7

“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr

tags: religion, science

1046 likes

#8

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion, zealotry

664 likes

#9

“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.”
― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man • The Truce

tags: inhumanity, mankind

256 likes

#10

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology

724 likes

#11

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: happiness

4245 likes

#12

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: fate, love, people

1868 likes

Thabo > Thabo's Quotes

Tags From Thabo’s Quotes