Wonderful Words :: Plato
.
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
-Plato
wonderful words
Wonderful Words :: Robert H. Jackson
.
IN WHAT ORDER SHOULD THE ARGUMENT BE ARRANGED?
The order and progression of an argument are important to its ready comprehension, but in the Supreme Court these are not wholly within the lawyer’s control. It is difficult to please nine different minds, and it is a common experience that questions upset the plan of argument before the lawyer has fairly started. I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned – as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented – interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.
-Robert H. Jackson
Advocacy Before the United States Supreme Court
August 23, 1951
Wonderful Words :: Henry Miller
.
“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
-Henry Miller
Wonderful Words :: Werner Herzog
.
“Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.”
-Werner Herzog
Wonderful Words :: Bill Moyers
.
It’s just a fact: Democracy doesn’t work without citizen activism and participation, starting at the community. Trickle down politics doesn’t work much better than trickle down economics. It’s also a fact that civilization happens because we don’t leave things to other people. What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it — as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
-Bill Moyers
This is Your Story – The Progressive Story of America. Pass It On.
June 10, 2003
Wonderful Words :: Noam Chomsky
.
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”
—Noam Chomsky
Wonderful Words :: Ralph Nader
.
“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”
-Ralph Nader
Civic Engagement :: Bill Moyers
.
You may not have money for in-depth documentaries or other high-end productions but you have cameras, microphones, studios and the trust of the community. You can be the ombudsman for the public within your reach, provide the venue for forums, teach-ins, town meetings, and debates over the issues that matter to people where they live, telecast in an atmosphere of openness and clarity without the mean and mindless rhetoric or cant that are so triumphant today. Civic engagement is the lifeblood of democracy and the bedrock of its legitimacy. No media can nurture, foster, and empower it the way we can.
-Bill Moyers
The Pivotal Role of Public Television
November 16, 2011
Wonderful Words :: Billy Kwan
.
“What Then Must We Do?”
“You do whatever you can about the misery that’s in front of you. Add your light to the sum of light.”
- Billy Kwan
The Year of Living Dangerously
Wonderful Words :: Haruki Murakami
.
“You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Wonderful Words :: Haruki Murakami
.
“I don’t know, there’s something about you. Say there’s an hourglass: the sand’s about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
Wonderful Words :: Ralph Nader
.
“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”
-Ralph Nader
Wonderful Words :: Steven Jay Gould
.
“Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism–and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.”
-Steven Jay Gould
Wonderful Words :: Aimee Bender
.
“I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Wonderful Words :: Maya Angelou
.
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
-Maya Angelou