The spokenword belongs

The spokenword belongs
The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.
  

Jan, 20 2012     75 chars (1 sms)     900 views       Quotes

more Quotes SMS Messages

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination
Suspicion begets suspicion.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.
When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.
Nostrength within, no respect without.
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.
Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.