This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Socialists must explain to the masses that they have no other road of salvation except the revolutionary overthrow of “their” governments, and that advantage must be taken of these governments’ embarrassments in the present war precisely for this purpose.
Fighting | Oppression |
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Character | Commitment |
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
I would say that the quality of each man’s life is the full measure of that man’s commitment of excellence and victory – whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.
Commitment | Excellence | Life | Life | Will | Excellence |
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Commitment | Heart | Man | Nothing | Strength | Will | World |
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.
Commitment | Excellence | Government | Life | Life | Politics | Excellence | Government |
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
Commitment | Excellence | Life | Life | Excellence |
Monsieur to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea. Ignominy thirsts for respect.
Oppression | Right |
V. S. Pritchett, fully Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett
All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
Commitment | Evil | Hell | Society | Society |
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
We always have urged people: Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don't take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed, because you're gonna be a different person, and you should be ready to face this possibility.
Commitment | Consciousness | Detachment | Discovery | World | Discovery |
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)
Conscience | Cunning | Defeat | Devil | Father | Force | Gall | Heart | Heaven | Life | Life | Murder | Oppression | Passion | Play | Power | Property | Revenge | Soul | Spirit | Tears | Weakness | Will | Words | Murder | Guilty |
Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole
My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change.
Commitment | Lord | Reading | Will |
Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.
Commitment | Good | Mind | Self | Leader |
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Perception of an object costs precise the Object's loss—
Need | Oppression |
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.
Capitalism | Enemy | Oppression |
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.
Future | Individual | Law | Means | Oppression | Present | Revolution | Parent |
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
When it was all of us realist impossible dream, but in my heart do not throw.
Oppression | Peace | Power |