Social Reformer Quotes

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

“A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.”

“I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.”

“Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.”

“Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.”

“to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country”

“In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.”

“Dreams can never be made captive.”

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”

“Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”

“Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.”

“The movement of life has its rest in its own music.”

“When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.”

“A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.”

“The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”

“The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'”

“The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.”

“The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.”

“The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.”

“Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.”

“When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.”

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”