Humanely Raised Quotes

#1. Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

Doseone

#3. To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

Hannah Arendt

#4. Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

Lord Chesterfield

#5. Every being wants happiness and does not want suffering. If we do not respect this fact, there will be more and more suffering on this planet.

Dalai Lama XIV

#6. In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war [WW II], and I defy the powers of darkness which they represent. I am proud to die for my ideals, and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.

William Joyce