Great Throughts Treasury

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Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

And wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Distinction | Heart | Life | Life | Regard | Society | Society |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I, wretched creature finally had to lower my flag, after a long struggle until dark with gloom and loneliness.

Distinction | Enough | Fear | Heart | Life | Life | Regard | Sincerity | Society | Society |

Emma Lazarus

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Contempt | People |

Emma Goldman

The sense of justice and equality, the love of liberty and of human brotherhood — these fundamentals of the real regeneration of society — the Communist State suppressed to the point of extermination. Man's instinctive sense of equity was branded as weak sentimentality; human dignity and liberty became a bourgeois superstition; the sanctity of life, which is the very essence of social reconstruction, was condemned as unrevolutionary, almost counter-revolutionary. This fearful perversion of fundamental values bore within itself the seed of destruction.

Fear | Heaven | Humanity | Man | Mankind | Reward | Spirit | Truth | Will |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

History | Society | Spirit | Will | Society |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

Labor |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Giving | Government | Religion | Government |

Euripedes NULL

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Ivan Oransky

Every year we're spending more than two trillion dollars on healthcare, and yet 100,000 people a year are dying not because of the conditions they have, but because of the treatments that we're giving them.

Love | Nothing | Scripture |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

Nations | Object | Race | Spirit | Time |

Italian Proverbs

With patience you go beyond knowledge.

God | Harm | Ignorance | Power | Time | Truth | Will | Witness | God |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Deserves it I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Anti-semitism | Cause | Object | Race |

Italian Proverbs

You don't go to heaven in a carriage.

Day | Existence | Golden Rule | Rule | Scripture | Story | Study | World | Golden Rule |

Itay Talgam

The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

Disdain | Global | Nations | Respect | Will | World | Respect |