Best Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Quotes: The most famous quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry–or laugh. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion… I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight … for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule) — L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
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Rule three hundred of obscure leadership if it’s your idea, you get to implement it. — Leland Exton Modesitt, Jr.
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History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. — Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. — Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won’t pass strong gun control legislation. — Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that one day … the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society … shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law … That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’ who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else’s freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed – ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
…And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Best Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr. Quotes: The most famous quotes by Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.
Economics is war pursued by other means. — Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.
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Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success. — Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
Don’t dwell on reality it will only keep you from greatness. — Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
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The Kennedy organization doesn’t run, it purrs. — Rowland Evans, Jr.
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The last time somebody said, ‘I find I can write much better with a word processor.’, I replied, ‘They used to say the same thing about drugs.’ — Roy Blount, Jr.
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Be ready when opportunity comes…Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. — Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
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I prefer my oysters fried That way I know my oysters died. — Roy G. Blount, Jr.
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I’m not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock. — Sam James Ervin, Jr.
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen. — Sam James Ervin, Jr.
I used to think that the Civil War was our country’s greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. — Sam James Ervin, Jr.
There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities. — Sam James Ervin, Jr.
Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn’t belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great — Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person’s money without respect for how hard it was to earn. — T. Boone Pickens, Jr.
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Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. — Vine Deloria, Jr.
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We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love. — Whitney Moore, Jr.
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. — William Frank Buckley, Jr.
Well, we’ve only had a certain number of executions in the last few years- whatever it was- and two of them were for the personal convenience of Truman Capote. — William Frank Buckley, Jr.
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. — William Frank Buckley, Jr.
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‘True love’ isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially –even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it. — William R. Mattox, Jr.
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We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all. — William Reece Smith, Jr.
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The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them. — Philo Judaeus
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Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. — H. Stanley Judd
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Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had. — Brian Judge
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I can’t understand it. I can’t even understand the people who can understand it. — Queen Juliana
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. — C. G. Jung
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. — C. G. Jung
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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. — Carl Gustav Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. — Carl Gustav Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. — Carl Gustav Jung
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. — Carl Gustav Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Gustav Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. — Carl Gustav Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. — Carl Gustav Jung
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health. — Carl Gustav Jung
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Gustav Jung
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, ‘Something is out of tune.’ — Carl Gustav Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. — Carl Gustav Jung
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Gustav Jung
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. — Carl Gustav Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Carl Gustav Jung
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. — Carl Gustav Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart … Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. — Carl Gustav Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble. — Carl Gustav Jung
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. — Carl Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. — Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. — Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. — Carl Jung
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. — Carl Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. — Carl Jung
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. — Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. — Carl Jung
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How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. — Junius
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An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts. — John Junor
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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. — Norman Juster
Best Juvenal Quotes: The most famous quotes by Juvenal
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. — Juvenal
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. — Juvenal
Luxury is more deadly than any foe. — Juvenal
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. — Juvenal
Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses. — Juvenal
Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover’s torment.) — Juvenal
But who is to guard the guards themselves — Juvenal
Peace visits not the guilty mind. — Juvenal
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue. — Juvenal
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. — Juvenal
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having. — Juvenal
A healthy mind in a healthy body. — Juvenal
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. — Juvenal
Be gentle with the young. — Juvenal
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. — Juvenal
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. — Juvenal
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. — Juvenal
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things – bread and circuses — Juvenal
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. — Juvenal
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