Refuseniks Soviet Quotes & Sayings

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation. — Colin Wilson

We all owe death a life. — Salman Rushdie

When a person feels appreciated for their infinite and absolute value, you can then communicate about any issue and you will have their cooperation and respect. — Kimberly Giles

Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint ... we should instead, realize that we are receiving that which nature decides to give us. A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being. The farmer has very little influence over that process ... other than being there and doing his or her small part. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Pay attention to the voice within ... Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep rally of temptations. And your mind may put some selfish spin on the ball, rationalizing that it's okay to veer away from the ethical route. When we run into conflicts between ethical "shoulds" and our selfish "wants," we all argure out ways to con our conscience. But take pains to listen, because it has your best interests at heart. — Price Pritchett

Yea ! by your works are ye justified
toil unrelieved ;
Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ;
Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ;
Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and disdained ;
Courage that suns
Only foolhardiness ; even by these, are ye worthy of your guns. — Gilbert Frankau

Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse — Ben Harper

Spiritual matters are difficult to explain
because you must live with them in order
to fully understand them. — Thomas Yellowtail

A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer

Are your eyelashes like your hair?" "Yes. They're very beautiful - want to see?" Her lips twitched. "Vanity is a sin,Bluebell." "When you have it, flaunt it, I say." -Elena and Illium — Nalini Singh

Time is under your feet! — Nick Farrow

Change occurs among other people, — Charles Duhigg

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. — Immanuel Kant

As the Inuits say, "Gifts make slaves, as whips make dogs. — Steven D. Levitt