Rhys > Rhys's Quotes

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
― Benedict de Spinoza

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
― Howard Zinn

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”
― Malala Yousafzai

“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”
― Terry Jones

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.”
― Warren Buffett

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.”
― Michael Parenti