Lisa Smith-elyea > Lisa's Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
― Paul McCartney

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
― Mark Twain

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit”
― David Suzuki

“When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.”
― John May, The Greenpeace story

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”
― Gil Scott-Heron

“Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?”
― O. R. Melling

“We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.”
― Zephyr McIntyre

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
― Gerald R. Ford

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.”
― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”
― Aristotle

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
― Plutarch

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

“the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”
― H.L. Mencken