/lit/ - Literature

Fuckin' broccoli cuts

I've been collecting quotes over the years and wanted to share some of my favorites, would enjoy reading some of yours as well:
"No one heals himself by wounding another." —Ambrose

"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far reaching consequence of submission to authority." —Stanley Milgram

"You can't wake someone who is pretending to be asleep." —Native American Proverb

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." —Oscar Wilde

"Moses wanted to turn a tribe of enslaved Hebrews into free men. You would think that all he had to do was to gather the slaves and tell them that they were free. But Moses knew better. He knew that the transformation of slaves into free men was more difficult and painful than the transformation of free men into slaves... Moses discovered that no spectacle, no myth, no miracles could turn slaves into free men. It cannot be done. So he led the slaves back into the desert, and waited forty years until the slave generation died, and a new generation, desert born and bred, was ready to enter the promised land." —Eric Hoffer

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” —Seneca

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be imposed upon them." —Frederick Douglass

"... if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.” —Nietzsche

"The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must." —Thucydides

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." —Ezra Pound

“Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.” —Aesop

"Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?" —Rachel Carson

"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist." —George Carlin