Stronger than pain quotes (page 378) | Quotes of famous people

“Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.”

Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion

Foreword, p. XIV https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stopped/dp/1610396200/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
2010s, Winter is Coming (2015)

“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning

“Trying to ignore secondarily meaningful things gives them more meaning than they deserve.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

30 January 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/8421130524
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“In accord with Nature’s Laws, nothing is more right than the preservation of one’s own race.”

David Lane (white nationalist) book 88 Precepts

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88 Precepts

“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Void and Compensation (1947), p. 200

“The fastest fighter I ever saw. Hell. Greb is faster than Benny Leonard”

Harry Greb (1894–1926) American boxer

lightweight champion
Heavyweight champion Jack Dempseyhttp://coxscorner.tripod.com/greb.html

“In the future, education will make a far wider use of psychology than heretofore. (12 - 84).”

Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949) esoteric, theosophist, writer

Source: Education in the New Age (1954), p. 84
The Great Invocation (1945) http://www.lucistrust.org/en/service_activities/the_great_invocation__1
Adapted/alternative version of the Great Invocation http://www.lucistrust.org/en/service_activities/the_great_invocation__1/adapted_version_of_the_great_invocation

“What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.”

Alex Trebek (1940) Canadian-American television personality

Justinson, C.H.L. Down and Dirty, pg 32.

“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”

Rowland Hill (preacher) (1744–1833) British preacher

P. 217.

“Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.”

Theodor W. Adorno book Minima Moralia

Zartheit zwischen Menschen ist nichts anderes als das Bewußtsein von der Möglichkeit zweckfreier Beziehungen.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

Young India (15 December 1921)
1920s

“In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

0 min 45 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Encyclopedia Galactica [Episode 12]

“Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of men such as Brandeis.”

Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice

Albert Einstein, statement sent to the Boston journal The Jewish Advocate on 1931-10-19 on the occasion of Justice Brandeis' seventy-fifth birthday, quoted in Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Albert Einstein: The Human Side (Princeton University Press, 1981), ISBN 0-691-02368-9, p. 85.