" This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism. " ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?" ~ William James ♥28SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. " ~ Albert Schweitzer ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy." ~ William James ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil." ~ Albert Schweitzer ♥23SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits." ~ William James ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion." ~ Albert Schweitzer ♥23SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?" ~ Gloria Steinem ♥395SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
" A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." ~ William James ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives." ~ Albert Schweitzer ♥22SharePinTweet2 SharesLife Quotes
" Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them." ~ William James ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." ~ Albert Schweitzer ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths." ~ William James ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude." ~ Albert Schweitzer ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." ~ Albert Schweitzer ♥28SharePinTweet4 SharesHappinessLove QuotesSuccess
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥41SharePinTweet1 SharesLife QuotesQuotes Gallery
" He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed." ~ William James ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books." ~ Albert Camus ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." ~ Albert Schweitzer ♥16SharePinTweet0 SharesPositive
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥28SharePinTweet0 SharesMotivational QuotesPositiveQuotes Gallery
"How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender." ~ William James ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter." ~ Albert Camus ♥31SharePinTweet2 SharesHappinessLove Quotes
" Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." ~ Albert Schweitzer ♥18SharePinTweet1 SharesHappiness
" People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
