Smart Mouths 72

Collected by Staff of Magellan's Log

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
                                                                   —Abraham Lincoln.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness, that must frighten us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, Courageous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You playing small does not help the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And when we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. When we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
                                                                   —Nelson Mandela.

Nobody realizes that some people expend a tremendous amount of energy merely to be normal.
                                                                   —Albert Camus.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
                                                                   —Paul Farmer.

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.
                                                                   —Harriet Rubin.

Nobody realizes that some people expend a tremendous amount of energy merely to be normal.
                                                                   —Albert Camus.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
                                                                   —John Stuart Mill.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
                                                                   —David Friedman.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
                                                                   —Abraham Lincoln.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
                                                                   —Arthur C. Clarke.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
                                                                   —John Cage.

Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.
                                                                   —John Kenneth Galbraith.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
                                                                   —Goethe.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are just re-arranging their prejudices.
                                                                   —William James.

By logic and reason we die hourly. By imagination we live.
                                                                   —Yeats.