Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.

If we disown history we are at its mercy. To have a reasonable knowledge of the past is to possess an anchor which is likely to prevent us from being swept towards false ideas about the present and future.

For any humanist such an incident would cause indescribable grief. But at the same time creating disturbances (aśānti)[,] indiscipline[,] and expressing outrage (akroś) is not the solution.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity, who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity, who was able to move others.

The principal defect of Egyptian arithmetic was the lack of a simple comprehensive symbolism, a defect which not even the Greeks were able to remove.

Those also who are remarkable for having led holy lives are released from this earthly prison, and go to their pure home which is above, and dwell in the purer earth; and those who have duly purified themselves with philosophy live henceforth altogether without the body, in mansions fairer far than these...

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

Everyone in China is saying this is unfair. We are Chinese. We know what’s right and wrong. We are very clever. We are reasonable. Our ears are not numb.

Maggie Roswell - Richard, Sylvia Winfield, Helen Lovejoy, Princess Kashmir, Mary Bailey, Maude Flanders, Elizabeth Hoover, Mona Simpson, Luann Van Houten, Martha Quimby, Allison Taylor, Nana Sophie Mussolini, Shary Bobbins, Strawberry

Life seemed unbearable at times but I adapted the attitude of a 'female warrior'.

I'm not a fool. I'm not capable of being fooled! Not even by a woman.

The untrapped mind is open enough to see many possibilities, humble enough to learn from anyone and anything, forbearing enough to forgive all, perceptive enough to see things as they really are, and reasonable enough to judge their true value.

The people most affected by this are people of the middle class who, lacking the hard contact with realities of the masses and unable to attain to the freedoms of a leisured class, are more than all types of people given to trivial divisions and subdivisions of social rank and precedence.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

I am not comfortable with the phrase “specific obsession,” but “cultural instinct” is worse.

This universe is a drop from the ocean of his beauty, unable from its fulness to find place in the parent bosom.