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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;
it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government.
It is always oppressive.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
Never, never and never again shall it be
that this beautiful land will again experience
the oppression of one by another.
- Nelson Mandela
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
The world is indebted for all triumphs
which have been gained by reason and humanity
over error and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle,
that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,
that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights,
which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking
becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
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