Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

Come, you pack of morphine addicts; come to kill us in our own land, and I will await you standing strong at the head of my patriotic soldiers, not caring about how many of you there are; bear in mind that when this happens, the destruction of your greatness will shake the Capitol in Washington, with your blood reddening the white sphere crowning your famous White House, the cavern where you plot your crimes.

Augusto Sandino

[Nearly Sane]

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

Ruskin Bond

[Nearly Sane]

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

Toussaint Louverture

[Nearly Sane]

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry

[Aruntraveller]

“People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.” - Martha Gellhorn.

[Nearly Sane]

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

Sun Ra

[Nearly Sane]

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Margaret Fuller

[Nearly Sane]

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan

[Nearly Sane]

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.


Rosario Castellanos

[Nearly Sane]

Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.

Isadora Duncan

[Nearly Sane]

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

[Nearly Sane]

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Walker Percy

[Nearly Sane]

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

T. H. White

[Nearly Sane]

Happiness is a beautiful fruit that tastes of cruelty.

Agnès Varda

[Nearly Sane]

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

Walt Whitman

[Nearly Sane]

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Marilyn Monroe

[Nearly Sane]

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

Carol Shields

[Nearly Sane]

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

James Hutton

[Nearly Sane]

When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears.

Ruth Westheimer

[Nearly Sane]

We do not see the lens through which we look.

Ruth Benedict

[Nearly Sane]

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Isaiah Berlin

[Aruntraveller]

"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
~George Carlin

[Nearly Sane]

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

[Nearly Sane]

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

Marguerite Yourcenar

[Nearly Sane]

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

Eric Hobsbawm