Myopsu Quotes & Sayings

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream. — Frederick Lenz

There is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. — Oliver Heaviside

One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct. — Delarivier Manley

Men, it is supposed want to pass their wisdom to their sons; he would give a great deal to protect his own son from a quartr of what he knows. — Hilary Mantel

(Charles Morgan, Jr., Southern Director of the ACLU in 1966, upon seeing conditions in the Jefferson County jail):

...I knew that [Southern whites] would have annihilated blacks had they been more literate and less useful. In Hitler's Germany armbands identified Jews. Those with black skin could have been annihilated more easily. But they were the labor pool with which to break strikes. They served as the pickers of cotton, the diggers of ditches. They emptied bedpans and cleaned the outhouses of our lives. Uneducated, property-less, disenfranchised, and excluded from justice, except as defendants, they were no threat to whites. While they remained useful and didn't get 'out of line,' their lives were assured, for no matter how worthless lower-class white folks said blacks were, the rich, well born, and able upper-class whites knew that they and black folks were really the only people indispensably required by Our Southern Way of Life. (188) — Wayne Greenhaw

Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility. Maybe the last shred of faith people have is in their firemen. — Kurt Vonnegut

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off. — Evangeline Lilly