The Daily Quote

All of this time I have been trying to explain to you this: a war with fascism is a war over reality. Fascism itself requi...

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two et...

In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love, because, as the prophet says, service is love made visible. If ...

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life. ...

Don't allow people to get you to believe that you've offended God when in reality you've only offended them. W...

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be...

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything re...

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. —Vladimir Nabok...

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough. —Thomas Carlyle ( 1843 )

It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a j...

We continue to believe in the future, even while we know what we know. Our world is burning. —Casey Schwartz ...

Patience is the most heroic of virtues precisely because it bears no semblance of heroism. —Giacomo Leopardi [ 08.30.01 ]...

It's coming from the sorrow in the street, the holy places where the races meet; from the homicidal bitchin...

We have sought to bind the chains of slavery on the limbs of the black man, without thinking that at last we should find t...

The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development. ...

Sometimes, I can't help but feel that our grief is all this country will let us own. And though I'd very much like...

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can't slow down enough t...

Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. (That which is beautiful is as useful as that which is useful.) —Vic...

To refuse to listen to someone's cries for justice and equality until the request comes in a language you feel comfort...

We can Each of us Do the impossible As long as we can convince ourselves That it has been done befor...

Things aren't necessarily going to be okay in a reasonable timeframe just because we want them to. To think otherwise ...

The odds against any of us being here at this moment are staggering. —Roger Ebert [ 10.19.10 ]

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real goo...

The world of dew is a world of dew, and yet, and yet. —Kobayashi Issa

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the wa...

The point is that the relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments mak...

I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let u...

Urban riots are a special form of violence. They are not insurrections. The rioters are not seeking to seize territory or ...

In fact the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting th...

This is not a riot. It is a rebellion. A riot is what white folks do in Boston after the Celtics win the championship. A r...

The things that make our lives are so tenuous, so unlikely, that we barely come into being, barely meet the people we'...