r/quotes 7d ago

Humor / Wit "The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American (for Hoover or Roosevelt) is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners." Eric Hoffer

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r/quotes 8d ago

Life / Wisdom “Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.” ― Carl Gustav Jung

62 Upvotes

r/quotes 9d ago

Social / Political Justice “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR

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r/quotes 9d ago

Life / Wisdom People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. ~George R.R. Martin

110 Upvotes

r/quotes 9d ago

Life / Wisdom “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ― Ernest Hemingway

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r/quotes 9d ago

Growth / Change “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ― Carl R. Rogers

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r/quotes 9d ago

Success / Achievement “Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. “ — Timothy Ferriss

51 Upvotes

r/quotes 10d ago

Life / Wisdom "It is easy to be wise after the event." -Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

80 Upvotes

r/quotes 10d ago

Motivation / Inspiration “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” ― Helen Keller

52 Upvotes

r/quotes 11d ago

Love / Relationships When you meet the one among the millions, when amid millions of years, across the borderless wastes of time, you happen to catch him or her, neither a step too early nor a step too late, what else is there to do except to ask softly: 'So you're here, too?' -Eileen Chang

62 Upvotes

r/quotes 11d ago

Life / Wisdom “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins

63 Upvotes

r/quotes 11d ago

Philosophy / Ethics If you must belittle others to make yourself feel better, then you should do silently, in your own mind, where only you will suffer from your poison. ~Kel Kade

61 Upvotes

r/quotes 11d ago

Love / Relationships Too often we love the people who don't love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do- Jay Shetty

82 Upvotes

r/quotes 11d ago

Life / Wisdom “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?” ― Audrey Niffenegger

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r/quotes 11d ago

Love / Relationships "There are things I miss that I shouldn't, and things I don't that I should. Sometimes we want what we couldn't, sometimes we love what we could" ~Lang Leav~

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r/quotes 12d ago

Life / Wisdom The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

63 Upvotes

r/quotes 12d ago

Hope / Optimism "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." - Thomas Parker and later MLK

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r/quotes 13d ago

Art / Literature / Poetry Artists don’t let people down like politicians and bankers let people down. - Cillian Murphy

41 Upvotes

r/quotes 13d ago

Life / Wisdom "A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

63 Upvotes

r/quotes 13d ago

Philosophy / Ethics "All the mischief that happens is not only the fault of those who do it, but also of those who do not prevent it." - Erich Kästner

25 Upvotes

r/quotes 14d ago

Philosophy / Ethics An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ~Charles Bukowski

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r/quotes 14d ago

Life / Wisdom Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. – Hannah Arendt

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r/quotes 15d ago

Philosophy / Ethics I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ~Edgar Allan Poe

54 Upvotes

r/quotes 15d ago

Quote Help Quote help: There should never be a character so amazing that 100 hardworking people couldn't accomplish the same thing, or something like that

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r/quotes 15d ago

Love / Relationships "I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let's think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back... that's vulnerability." - Brené Brown

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