You're going to pay a price for every thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.Jordan B. Peterson
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.Mahatma Gandhi
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we doJohn Ruskin
The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.Bruce Springsteen
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.Thomas Pynchon
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.Plato
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.Ernest Hemingway
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.Benjamin Franklin
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.Cyril Connolly
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?Langston Hughes
Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful.Robert Greene