Shantideva The Way Of The Bodhisattva Quotes

#1. I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Lin Yutang

#2. Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

Northrop Frye

#3. A democracy is not truly democratic unless it's secular.

Shawn Lawrence Otto

#4. Feed your mind. Cultivate impressions and opinions. Know what you think.

Debra Ollivier

#5. For, Thou art righteous, O Lord, but we have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and Thy hand is grown heavy upon us, and we are justly delivered over unto that ancient sinner, the king of death; because he persuaded our will to be like his will whereby he abode not in Thy truth.

Augustine Of Hippo

#6. Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action.

Rinku Sen

#7. No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories live only in these Annals. We are our own mourners.

Glen Cook

#8. Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

Terri Sewell

#9. Examine thus yourself from every side.
Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving.
Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path
Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.

Shantideva

#10. The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

Northrop Frye