„Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.“
— Joseph Roux French poet 1834 - 1905
Part 5, XXII
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
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„May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.“
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
On her $100 fine, as quoted in An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting] (1874) The "old revolutionary maxim" Anthony uses here has been variously attributed to William Tyndale, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, as well as to herself.
Variant: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God; I shall never pay a penny of this unjust claim.
As quoted in Woman: Her Position, Influence and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World (1900) p. 415
Unsourced variants: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, and I shall never pay a penny of this unjust claim.
Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, and I shall never pay a penny of this unjust fine.
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)
Context: May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper — The Revolution — four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government; and I shall work on with might and main to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny shall go to this unjust claim. And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
„Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!“
— Brian Jacques British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels 1939 - 2011
„We walk this earth
hand with hand and head by head
along with shadows of fairy tales
myths and legends spread by superstitious folks
and oddly we yearn to all of them
with sadness and despair
like drowning sailor who longs for sip of air
with playful joy against the odds
we seek to tame good auld death
forgetting that lady D is a wild cat
that carves its paths with fangs and claws step by step
step by step
until she is to close
- inside your head“
— Marcin Malek Polish writer 1975
Source: We'll go asleep, poems and ballads, "Untill she is to close", pg 64
„To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.“
— Zhuangzi classic Chinese philosopher -369 - -286 BC
„When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.“
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
Source: My Story
„Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935
„Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
„When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.“
— Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941
„Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.“
— Susanna Kaysen, book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted
„I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils, trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996
„The efficiency of a group working together is directly related to the homogeneity of the work they are performing.“
— Luther H. Gulick American academic 1892 - 1993
Source: "Notes on the Theory of Organization," 1937, p. 9-10
„You can close your eyes if you want. Some things are less scary.“
— Tyler Joseph American singer-songwriter and record producer 1988
„Feminism has taught women to sue men for sexual harassment or date rape when men initiate with the wrong person or with the wrong timing; no one has taught men to sue women for sexual trauma for saying “yes,” then “no,” then “yes.” … Men [are] still expected to initiate, but now, if they [do] it badly, they could go to jail.“
— Warren Farrell, book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 16.
„There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…“
— Roald Dahl British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter 1916 - 1990
