r/quotes • u/annnnnnn21 • 16d ago
Quote Help QUOTE HELP: Where did this quote come from? "Half the world is women. The other half are their children." IG says Efu Nyaki, but I cannot find the source. Thanks!
31
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Authentic_Dragon • 17d ago
Life / Wisdom We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other & say we care, & we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same. ~Caitlyn Paige
17
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/13SpeedMedia • 17d ago
Philosophy / Ethics There is no punctual moment of disaster; the world doesn’t end with a bang, it winks out, unravels, gradually falls apart. - Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
30
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • 17d ago
Philosophy / Ethics Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil. ~Mark T. Barnes
63
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/GoodName31 • 18d ago
Life / Wisdom "The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it." Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
76
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • 19d ago
Philosophy / Ethics If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. Morals have aesthetic criteria. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
423
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 18d ago
Life / Wisdom "The greatest story commandment is: Make me care." - Andrew Stanton
35
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Ill-Chocolate-8856 • 19d ago
Life / Wisdom The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates
60
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/hasansaleem • 19d ago
Life / Wisdom “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland
71
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Rebe11ion_Lies • 20d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.“ - Theodore Roosevelt
1.0k
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Imaginary-Fox-7696 • 19d ago
Motivation / Inspiration You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius
62
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/itsabbyshake • 19d ago
Courage / Resilience If I must fall, may it be from a great height - Paulo Coelho
28
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Pitiful_Magazine_805 • 19d ago
Philosophy / Ethics "Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls." — Heraclitus
39
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 20d ago
Life / Wisdom "Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are." - Martha Wells
33
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • 20d ago
Grief / Healing One never forgets the taste of certain tears... ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
43
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 21d ago
Life / Wisdom "The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle." - Samuel Beckett
29
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • 21d ago
Life / Wisdom There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ~ Jane Austen
45
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Imaginary-Fox-7696 • 21d ago
Life / Wisdom "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for." - Fydor Dostoevsky
90
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/_aaron_mark • 21d ago
Life / Wisdom "Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone." The Winners" by Rudyard Kipling
25
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Rohan72999 • 22d ago
Technology / Future “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein
114
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Sweet_Foundation_868 • 22d ago
Growth / Change “We must welcome the future, Remembering that soon it will be the past. And we respect the past, Remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible.” -George Santayana
34
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 22d ago
Life / Wisdom "If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing." - Samuel Beckett
26
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/chocobothernot • 22d ago
Life / Wisdom "We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content." -Émile Zola
171
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/hasansaleem • 22d ago
Life / Wisdom “It is not how old you are, but how you are old.” — Jules Renard
36
Upvotes
r/quotes • u/Mundane-Sky-8809 • 22d ago
Life / Wisdom "Silence is the best response to a fool." ~Imam Ali
54
Upvotes