"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"
Dr. Seuss

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987)

"It is much easier to foll a man than it is to convince a man tht he has been fooled." Mark Twain

What is popular is seldom right. What is right is seldom popular.

Don't give me advise...I want to make my own mistakes.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

• John Muir

You can only see as far as you think...

This one's one my profile:

"PSA: if you see a woman who is working super hard to become who she's meant to be, and achieve the goals she wants to achieve, and you have nothing to add to her life, or to give back to her in any way, please just leave her the fuck alone."
-Lane Moore

"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" Christopher Hitchens

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. -John Brunner

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity. -Sydney J. Harris

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. -Malcolm De Chazal

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. -Edith Sitwell

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. -Robert M. Pirsig

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" Marx

“If you ain’t at the table, you are on the menu”. Omarosa ???

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (29 Aug 1809-1894)

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832)

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher (27 Aug 1770-1831)

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. -George Orwell, writer (25 Jun 1903-1950)

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know. The Church does neither.

― Robert G. Ingersoll

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. - John Locke

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. - Immanuel Kant

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. - Immanuel Kant

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy. -Andrew Sullivan, writer (b. 10 Aug 1963)

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. - Alfred Hitchcock

I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. -Davy Crockett, frontiersman, soldier, and politician (17 Aug 1786-1836)

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would indeed be a terrible affliction. -Jean de La Bruyere, essayist and moralist (16 Aug 1645-1696)