#libquotes

... Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it. - Curtis LeMay

Goethe, Maxims and Reflections 

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do. (Nelson Mandela)

Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist Minister & Theologian who posited that because God is an all-powerful being of limitless love, He would never damn sentient beings to eternal suffering. via UUWorld

We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself." - Carter Heyward

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. - Harry S. Truman

Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude. - William Blake

America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others. - Anaïs Nin