Others Quotes - page 37

As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others. (Michael Chabon)
At the same time, I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations. View quote
Jerry Falwell
Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others. View quote
Geert Hofstede
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. View quote
Thomas Browne
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. View quote
Thomas Browne
Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way. View quote
Erving Goffman
The degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others. View quote
Erving Goffman
Love of others begins with love of self. View quote
Robert Silverberg
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them. View quote
Dick Francis
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. (Marcel Achard)
More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason. View quote
Georges Bernanos
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. View quote
Thomas Moore
Open suspecting others comes of secret condemning themselves. View quote
Philip Sidney
I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years. View quote
Gary Snyder
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. View quote
Walter Lippmann
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. View quote
Daniel Boone
The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened. View quote
Theodoret
We are born in ignorance, we die in ignorance, but maybe sometimes we learn something important and pass it along to others before we die. Or we write it down in a little book. View quote
Greg Bear
I do to others what they do to me, only worse. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self. (Dōgen)
Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit. View quote
Dōgen
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk. View quote
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy. View quote
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others. View quote
Anthony Trollope