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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Seventh State of the Union (3 December 1907)
A stream cannot rise larger than its source.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
J. K. Rowlingborn 1965Harvard address (2008)
- Change
- Inspiration
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970“A Liberal Decalogue”, from “The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism”, New York Times Magazine (16/December/1951)
Change is one thing, progress is another.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unpopular Essays (1950)
- Change
Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Future of Science (1959), p. 79
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Political Ideals (1917)
- Change
- Hope
Goldie and I did have a car stolen right out of our yard. It took us three days to notice.
Kurt Russellborn 1951
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Broca’s Brain (1979), Chapter 5, “Night Walkers and Mystery Mongers: Sense and Nonsense at the End of Science” (p. 73)
All of us who have time and money to spare, travel — that is to say, we flee; since surely it is not so much a question of travelling as of getting away? Which of us has not some sorrow to dull, or some yoke to cast off?
George Sand1804–1876Un Hiver à Majorque, pt. 1, ch. 4 (1855); Robert Graves (trans.) Winter in Majorca (Chicago: Academy Press, 1978) p. 29
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. VII