Kokotsu Quotes & Sayings

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

I see everything, everything that there is. Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why does each small thing in the world have to fight against the world itself? Why does a fly have to fight the whole universe? Why does a dandelion have to fight the whole universe? So that each thing that obeys law may have the glory and isolation of the anarchist. So that each man fighting for order may be as brave and good a man as the dynamiter. So that the real lie of Satan may be flung back in the face of this blasphemer, so that by tears and torture we may earn the right to say to this man, 'You lie!' No agonies can be too great to buy the right to say to this accuser, 'We also have suffered.' It is not true that we have never been broken. We have been broken upon the wheel. It is not true that we have never descended from these thrones. We have descended into hell. — G.K. Chesterton

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. — Emanuel Celler

And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms — E. E. Cummings

Every living being is psychic. Whether or not we are consciously aware of it, we feel vibrations and energies coming to us from other people all the time. The vast majority of the thoughts you think and the emotions you feel aren't your own. — Frederick Lenz

I have learned that greatness is not often born at the head of armies or standing before large gatherings of people. I have learned that it is only rarely manifested in grandiose words or bold action and that it has little to do with position or title or authority. Rather, true greatness most often comes from small turnings within the soul, in quiet ways, in actions that the world will little note. Greatness is around us, below us. It is not often above us. We need to reach down for greatness, where the small things are at our feet. It comes in small, simple words and sublime magnanimity. — Donald S. Smurthwaite

Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle. — Louis Schwartzberg

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely. — Cynthia Kenyon

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow. — Martha Reeves

I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something. At the basis of love therefore must live imagination. — James Alan McPherson

The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history ... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis, even though the court did not have a single document signed by A. Hitler concerning the extermination of Jews ... — Rick Sanchez

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. — J. Philippe Rushton

The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy. — Deb Caletti

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life. — Fred Rogers