Violence
- Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
-- John F. Boyes
- Violence is as American as cherry pie.
-- H. Rap Brown
- Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
-- Thurgood Marshall
- The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- These violent delights have violent ends.
-- William Shakespeare
- Nothing good ever comes of violence.
-- Martin Luther
- There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
-- Benito Mussolini
- Violence does even justice unjustly.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
-- William O. Douglas
- It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.
-- Emma Goldman
- Violence cannot build a better society. Disruption and disorder nourish repression, not justice. They strike at the freedom of every citizen. The community cannot--it will not--tolerate coercion and mob rule.
-- Commission on Civil Disorder, 1968
- Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
-- William O. Douglas
- Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
-- Albert Einstein
- All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue
- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
-- Francis Bacon
- Perfect virtue is to do unwitnessed that which we should be capable of doing before all the world.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
-- Edmund Burke
- Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
-- James Russell Lowell
- Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
-- Ed Howe
- Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Vision
- Where there is no vision a people perish.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw
- Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
-- Jonathan Swift
- No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
-- Woodrow Wilson
- I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
-- Louis L. Mann
- The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
-- Winston Churchill
- It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
-- Edward H. Harriman
Voice
- Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
-- Jean de La Bruyère
- A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom.
-- William D. Howells
- There is no index so sure as the voice.
-- Tancred
- The human voice is the organ of the soul.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- At some glad moment was it nature's choice
To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
-- Edgar Fawcett
Vote
- We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.
-- Kin Hubbard
- A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
-- O. Henry
- Vote for the man who promises least--he'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard M. Baruch
- ... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
-- William L. Shirer
- Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- In times of stress and strain, people will vote.
-- Anonymous
- Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan
- Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
-- John Quincy Adams
- Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
-- H. L. Mencken
- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
-- John Quincy Adams
- When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
-- Harry S. Truman
- There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
-- H.L. Mencken
- Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal
- "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
- Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw
- Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern
- It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal
- No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon.
- Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch (1870-1965)
- When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance."
-- Anon.
- Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland
- I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
-- -Gilbert & Sullivan, from HMS Pinafore
Vow
- 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth;
But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
-- William Shakespeare
- A vow is a snare for sin.
-- Samuel Johnson
- It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
-- William Shakespeare
- A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- Men's vows are women's traitors!
-- William Shakespeare
- Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
-- Thomas Fuller
- Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
-- William Penn
- Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Vulgarity
- By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
-- Solomon Schechter
- A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common
-- William Nazlitt
- Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
-- Greek Proverb
- To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
-- Alexander Pope
- Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
-- Cyril Connolly
- Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
-- Nathaniel P. Willis
- There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
-- Mark Twain
- Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
-- Oscar Wilde
- Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
-- Anonymous
|
|