Quotes That Inspire Me

"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious to believe that the world can still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say 'What do I care if there is a summer; it's warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is thaw. And so I must still have hope."
-- Vincent Van Gogh

"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."
-- Vincent Van Gogh

"I acknowledge no master in human form."
-- John Brown

"'Violence never solved anything' is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."
-- Luigi Mangione

"I don't care if I fall, as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting."
-- Che Guevara

"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless."
-- Robin Williams

"None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you're carrying in your heart like a hidden treasure. Be silly, be kind, be weird. There's no time for anything else."
-- Anthony Hopkins

"Many of us would like to ask ourselves 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is: You're doing it. Right now."
-- Aaron Bushnell

"Only a fool fights by the ground rules that his enemy has laid down for him."
-- Malcolm X

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
-- Malcolm X

"No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us."
-- Marsha P. Johnson

"Political power grows out the barrel of a gun."
-- Mao Zedong

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will having its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
-- Thucydides

"Limited in nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens."
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you're laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire. It's bullying."
-- Terry Pratchett

"To a layman, a confident idiot and an expert can look exactly the same."
-- Matthew Judge, DarkViperAU

"Centrism: The political equivalent of a limp dick."
-- Yugopnik, The Deprogram

"The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone - Everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off for just one second. To do the deed."
-- The Deserter, Disco Elysium

"I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do."
-- Angus Delaney, Night in the Woods

"War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other."
-- Niko Bellic, GTA IV

"If I am to blossom into something other than myself, I'd rather rot away as I am."
-- Millicent, Elden Ring

"People make mistakes, it's all part of growing up. And you never really stop growing up."
-- Duke of Nuts, Adventure Time

"People don't forget, nothing is forgiven."
-- John Marston, Red Dead Redemption

"Aligning with the lesser of two evils is still siding with evil!"
-- Ratchet, Transformers: Prime

"The Earth is hungry. It's heart throds and demands a cleansing. The Earth is also thirsty."
-- The Dude, POSTAL 1

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
-- Dr Suess, The Lorax

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy one, I will endulge the other."
-- Mary Shelly, Frankenstein