Misty’s Favorite Quotes about Truth, Politics, and Life

Misty’s Favorite Quotes about Truth, Politics, and Life

By Misty Marie

I just wanted to share a few of my favorite quotes (quite a few actually). These quotes are something we can all learn from. Some are attributed to their authors, those listed without being credited to who wrote them were obtained from bumper stickers, buttons, posters, etc. Hope you enjoy!

• Our lives begin to end the moment we become silent about things that matter.
• Speak your mind even if your voice shakes! ~Maggie Kuhn
• Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens. ~Jimi Hendrix
• I think, therefore I’m dangerous.
• You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can’t make him think.
• Be Yourself, everyone else is taken.
• The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine. ~ Article XI, Treaty of Tripoli, passed by Congress 1797
• We are here to awaken from the illusion of our seperateness. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
• Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can’t eat money. ~Cree proverb
• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress, can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~M. Gandhi
• Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ M.Gandhi
• If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.
• I’m already against the next war.
• Politicians should dress like race car drivers. At least we’d know who their corporate sponsors are!
• Do you keep hearing crazy voices? Turn off FOX News.
• The best way to predict the future is to help create it.
• Humans aren’t the only species on Earth-We just act like it!
• It is horrifying that we have to fight our government to save our environment.
• The activist is not the one who says the river is dirty, but the one who cleans it up.
• Those who abandon their dreams will discourage yours.
• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ~Dalai Lama
• Trust those who seek the truth. Doubt those who have found it.
• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. ~Bob Marley
• The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. ~Teihard de Chardin
• Minds are like parachutes…they only function when open!
• It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ~Frederick Douglass
• Children should be seen and heard and believed.
• It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society. ~Krishna Murti
• There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? ~George Bernard Shaw
• America’s healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ~Walter Cronkite
• Ignore your rights and they’ll go away.
• The problems we face will not be solved by the minds that created them.
• A patriot must be ready to defend his country against his government. ~Edward Abbey
• Freedom of speech means the freedom to disagree.
• Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
• Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
• The most violent element in society is ignorance. ~Emma Goldman
• No one is free when others are oppressed.
• Politicians and diapers need to be changed—often for the same reasons.
• The first duty of government is to protect the powerless against the powerful. ~Code of Hammurabi
• I pledge allegiance, not thoughtless obedience.
• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you angry.
• Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. ~Alice Walker
• A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
• Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. ~Benjamin Franklin
• What good fortune for governments that the people don’t think. ~Hitler
• The time to do the right thing is always now.
• Try to be informed—not just opinionated.
• Money is not speech and corporations are not people.
• Your silence will not protect you. ~Audre Lorde
• FIGHT TRUTH DECAY!
• Falling down doesn’t make you a failure, staying down does.
• I do not intend to tiptoe through life to arrive safely at death.
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead
• You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. ~Booker T. Washington
• Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~Buddha
• Change happens at the speed of thought.
• It doesn’t require many words to speak the truth. ~Chief Joseph
• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ~Goethe
• Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the former. ~Albert Einstein
• The most common way people give up their power is thinking they don’t have any. ~Alice Walker
• Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank
• What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears. ~Alice Walker
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
• We can’t cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. ~Joseph Campbell
• You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissendents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists ~Abbie Hoffman
• It is a terrible thing to see and yet have no vision. ~Helen Keller
• Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. ~Molly Ivins
• Nobody knows the exact age of the human race but everyone agrees it is old enough to know better.
• There is no god higher than the truth. ~M.Gandhi
• Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers

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