Escritas — Poems List

William Shakespeare

Though inclination be as sharp

Though inclination be as sharp as will,

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Mark Twain

Get your facts first, then

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please

114

Tich Nhat Han

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion,

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion.

28

Dolly Parton

Storms make trees take deeper

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

27

John Adams

We have no government armed

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

50

Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

354

Martin Luther King Jr

We have flown the air

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

286

Ho Chi Minh

They will kill a great

They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first.

22

James Madison

... Religion ... [is] the

... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

101

Gerald Ford

I believe that truth is

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

20

Charles Darwin

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

146

Sonia Taitz

What children take from us,

What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

47

James Madison

We have staked the whole

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

65

Karl Popper

We hate the very idea

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

63

H. R. Schaffer

There is…nothing to suggest that

There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

13

Frank Herbert

Empires do not suffer emptiness

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

33

Woodrow Wilson

A nation which does not

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

89

William Penn

Speak properly, and in as

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

52

Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

68

Frank Herbert

All governments eventually lean further

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

20

Plato

The punishment which the wise

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

228

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Make money, money, honestly if

Make money, money, honestly if you can; if not, by any means at all, make money.

78

Frank Herbert

Peace for any prolonged period

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

50

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we grow old…the beauty

As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.

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