Visionary Quotes (please post your own!)
Hi, I'd like your assistance in compiling a very long list of visionary quotes... revolutionary quotes...
Quotes that speak to the up and coming revolutionaries... quotes that speak to who we must be and how we must live..
Here are two to start, then post your own by clicking the Comments link below...
"A Society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of "success" to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed." --- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy
Quotes that speak to the up and coming revolutionaries... quotes that speak to who we must be and how we must live..
Here are two to start, then post your own by clicking the Comments link below...
"A Society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of "success" to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed." --- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy
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From Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country:: "Lt. Valeris: 'Four-hundred years ago, on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes, called sabo, into the machines to stop them . . . hence the word: sabotage.'"
um hi just happend apon your blog but ill post a couple of quotes the first one is mine "I will learn but if my knollege will hurt my fellow man i will stop and dream. I will dream but if my dream will kill my fellow men i will stop and live. I will live but if my live takes the live of my fellow man i will stop and I will die. Then I will have loved another more than myself and have lived a guiltless life." the second one i heard in a movie preview but i believe it with all my heart. "people should not fear their government but the government should fear its people."
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