My Favorite Quotes

"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 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 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

"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 the one, I will indulge the other."
-- Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The society that separates it's scholars from it's warriors will have it's thinking done by cowards and it's fighting done by fools."
-- Thucydides

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

"Many of us 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

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

"Socialism is merely an extension of the ideal of democracy into the economic field."
-- Eugene Debs

"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

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

"Never believe that the anti-semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating that by some phrase that the time for argument has passed."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre