Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

[Nearly Sane]

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

Emil Cioran

[Nearly Sane]

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness


Charles Baudelaire

[Nearly Sane]

We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

Dolores Huerta

[Nearly Sane]

 'It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.'

David Hume

[Nearly Sane]

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

Leo Rosten

[Nearly Sane]

Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old saggy cloth cat. Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams, but Emily loved him.

Oliver Postgate

[Nearly Sane]

Attempted modifications of an essential evil always fail.


Josephine Butler

[Nearly Sane]

A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society


B.R. Ambedkar

[Nearly Sane]

"The Vikings ancestors arrived in America before Christopher Columbus, but they are gone now. Fortunately for everyone, otherwise the whole world would speak Icelandic, which is a very complicated and very difficult language"

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

[Nearly Sane]

Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light

Spike Milligan

[Aruntraveller]

It is now deeply unconservative to try to stop people dying unnecessarily early.

John Crace

[Nearly Sane]

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

Cynthia Ozick

[Nearly Sane]

Nations which are pleased to term themselves civilized, have one sort of faith which they hold to one another, and another sort which they entertain towards people less advanced in refinement. The faith which they entertain towards the latter, is very often treachery, in the vocabulary of the civilized.


James McCune Smith

[Nearly Sane]

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Dudley Moore

[Nearly Sane]

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

Joan Miro

[Nearly Sane]

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Karl Kraus

[Nearly Sane]

We are not fighting against men, but against outdated opinions and customs.

Kartini

[Nearly Sane]

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

[Nearly Sane]

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

William Shakespeare

[Nearly Sane]

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

Bridget Riley

[Nearly Sane]

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Ella Fitzgerald

[Nearly Sane]

I've always loved high style in low company.

Anita Loos

[Nearly Sane]

All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.


Mary Wollstonecraft

[Nearly Sane]

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Harper Lee