Olivinhaim Quotes & Sayings

To light a lamp as a source of light is about as wasteful of energy as to burn down ones house to roast one's pork. — J.B.S. Haldane

Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them. — Margaret D. Klein

As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn't matter to me. The world is full of suffering, distress, violence and catastrophes. Students must decide: does something concern you or not? I say: look around, analyze the problems, ask yourself what you can do and set out on the work! — Noam Chomsky

Love was all about learning to speak a person's language. — Mia Sheridan

There are many subjects upon which, if we hold an opinion at all, we should hold it tentatively, waiting for more light, and retaining a willingness to be enlightened. Many a bitter and fruitless quarrel might be avoided, if more persons found it possible to maintain this philosophical attitude of mind. Philosophy is, after all, reflection, and the reflective man must realize that he is probably as liable to error as are other men. He is not infallible, nor has the limit of human knowledge been attained in his day and generation. He who realizes this will not assume that his neighbor is always wrong, and he will come to have that wide, conscientious tolerance, which is not indifference, but which is at the farthest remove from the zeal of mere bigotry. — George Stuart Fullerton

Then everybody wept,
Or sat, too exhausted to weep,
Or lay, too hurt to weep. — Ted Hughes

She obviously didn't realize the depth and breadth of the stories I could tell without touching the things I didn't want her to know. — C.D. Reiss