Michael Lerner Quotes

#1. We build walls to protect ourselves from the hurt and pain. But someday you will realize that you are alone, in your own prison.

S.C. Rhyne

#2. You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

Betty Ford

#3. Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.

Michael Lerner

#4. The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

Andrew Jackson

#5. If I could choose from all the fathers in the world, Dad, I'd choose you!

John Walter Bratton

#6. The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

Neil Young

#7. I'm a nice person. I give money to starving babies and properly tip my hairdresser. Why am I the one everyone tries to kill?

Sophie Oak

#8. If Satan really wanted to face Jesus Christ in a battle, he will be facilitating the End of the Age by helping to spread the gospel to the whole world. This must be fulfilled for the End to come. Matthew 24:14

Felix Wantang

#9. I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

Carol Leifer

#10. I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

Lena Horne

#11. Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

Michael Lerner

#12. One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

Michael Arndt

#13. One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes ... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Marc Andreessen

#14. I seek peace, let me BE peace.

Michael Lerner

#15. I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

Kara Swisher

#16. The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

#17. Was he the epitome of virtue because he was poor? How had it been in the village? There was foul gossip and cussedness anywhere in the world where small men had to think of their stomachs first before thinking about others.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#18. Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector.

Michael Lerner

#19. Avarice is always poor.

Samuel Johnson

#20. Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

Michael Lerner