Doe Quotes - Page 163

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any

Freedom does not mean license.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.