One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
—A. W. Tozer (American Christian Pastor)
The ecologization of politics requires us to acknowledge the priority of human values and makes ecology part of education at an early age, molding a new, modern approach to nature and, at the same time, giving back to man a sense of being part of nature. No moral improvement of society is possible without that.
—Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Head of State)
The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
—Jeff Bezos (American Businessman)
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
—Mary Webb (English Novelist)
Too much truth is uncouth.
—Franklin P. Adams (American Columnist)
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don’t share ideas.
—Tony O’Reilly (Irish Athlete, Businessman)
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.
—Oscar Hammerstein II (American Songwriter)
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
—Elizabeth Blackwell (American Physician)
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
—George D. Prentice (American Journalist)
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
—Maximilien Robespierre (French Revolutionary)