Compulsions Quotes

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

You can kill a revolutionary,

but you can’t kill the revolution.

Opportunity is missed by most people

because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Here I stand,

I can do no other.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

I’ve always been a bit of a rebel.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing

but an act of murder.

Waste is worse than loss.

The time is coming,

when every person who lays claim to ability,

will keep the question of waste before him constantly,

The scope of thrift is limitless.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions

but to destroy the capacity to form any.

If the doors of perception were cleansed,

everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

If you want to be happy, be.

If a country is to be corruption free and become

a nation of beautiful minds,

I strongly feel there are three key societal members

who can make a difference.

They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Don’t follow the crowd,

let the crowd follow you.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

Happiness is secured through virtue;

it is a good attained by living well.

Men's actions are too strong for them.

Show me a man who has acted,

and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

The message is simple: love and protect our natural world.

There will one day spring from the brain of science

a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities,

so absolutely terrifying, that even man,

the fighter,

who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,

will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.