Poems List

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.

Some promises are better left unsaid

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.