C E Ruthenberg Quotes & Sayings

Tennyson said that if we could understand a single flower we would know who we are and what the world is. Perhaps he meant that there is no deed, however so humble, which does not implicate universal history and the infinite concatenation of causes and effects. Perhaps he meant that the visible world is implicit, in its entirety, in each manifestation, just as, in the same way, will, according to Schopenhauer, is implicit, in its entirety, in each individual. — Jorge Luis Borges

Like the tiny droplets of water make the huge ocean!, similarly little daily doses of practice will take you to greater glories. — Tina Sequeira

The UN lacked the ability to act without the support of its more powerful members, notably the United States. The American government wanted to avoid a repetition of its unsuccessful intervention in Somalia, in which thirty American troops were killed. President Clinton issued a directive on UN military conditions. The operations would also have to be directly relevant to American interests. These conditions excluded American support for UN intervention to stop the genocide [in Rwanda]. — Jonathan Glover

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems. — Prem Rawat

Learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own. — Mary Shelley

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do. — Fred Korematsu

Let the rain add to our tears
Until the day when pain has stopped
And we will say there was hope in every raindrop. — Wesley Banks

I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote. — David Duke