𝓔𝓶𝓲𝓵𝔂 💎 > 𝓔𝓶𝓲𝓵𝔂 💎's Quotes

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
― G. M. Gilbert

“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”
― James Baldwin

“The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
― Carl Jung

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
― Issac Asimov

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62

“One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.”
― Miguel de Cervantes

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”
― Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ”
― William Arthur Ward

“Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
― Pope John Paul II

“Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.”
― John Paul II