quotes of day Friday, August 14, 2026

“Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.”

“There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.”

“You are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely.”

“It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.”

“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”

“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

“Without new ideas success can become stale”

“The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.”

“It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.”

“That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.”

“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”

“Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.”

“Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.”