Anna Kingsford Quotes

#1. [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.

Edward Abbey

#2. [B]y far the larger number of the dreams ... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.

Anna Kingsford

#3. I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.

Tom Scholz

#4. Salvation for our educational ills ... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.

Seymour Sarason

#5. People are poor not just because of their sins; they are poor because of our sins (and people are rich because of our sins). On the wall of New Jerusalem is a sign that reads, We cannot fully recover until we help the society that made us sick recover.

Shane Claiborne

#6. Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#7. A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.

Pete Seeger

#9. When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother,

P. W. Singer

#10. We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

Comte De Lautreamont

#11. I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.

John Corey Whaley

#12. There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed; no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.

Anna Kingsford

#13. It may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.

Anna Kingsford

#14. It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.

Anna Kingsford

#15. Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Oswald Spengler