Chains Curzon Quotes & Sayings

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact. — Mahatma Gandhi

Now is the time to learn how to argue constructively before you have children. — Cindy Wright

Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future?
But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion. — Blaise Pascal

Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science. — Richard Dawkins

O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have so many, like brothers, commanding one another's fortunes! — William Shakespeare

Listen more to the other players on the bandstand than you do to yourself. — Bill Kirchen

But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It's very special to do. It doesn't happen fast. — James Altucher

The drunken man is a living corpse. — Saint John Chrysostom

You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance. — Nikolay Davydenko

Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. — F Scott Fitzgerald

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers. — Oswald Spengler

In accordance with the prevailing tendency of consciousness to seek the source of all ills in the outside world, the cry goes up for political and social changes which, it is supposed, would automatically solve the much deeper problem of split personality. Hence it is that whenever this demand is fulfilled, political and social conditions arise which bring the same ills back again in altered form. — C. G. Jung

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not. — Patrick Ness