Top 100 W E Quotes
#1. [W]e have a tendency to judge others according to ourselves.
Jean Cocteau
#2. [W]e are here to love. Not much else matters.
Francis Chan
#3. [W]e've learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.
Bill Clegg
#4. [W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.
Countee Cullen
#5. [W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.
Adolf Hitler
#6. [W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.
Tom Hodgkinson
#7. [W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite
Alain De Botton
#8. [W]e're caught by our concepts ... [C]oncepts are not Reality.
Steve Hagen
#9. [W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#10. [W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.
Alexander Hamilton
#11. I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe.
Eva Green
#12. [W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
Milan Kundera
#13. If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois's famous words, "the problem of the color line," then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification.
Naomi Murakawa
#14. I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.
Glenn Reynolds
#15. [W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the contrary, we are good people for doing so.
John Christy
#16. [W]e all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them?
Jon Ronson
#17. [W]e people the other planets, not that we may place there different beings from ourselves, but more beings of our own and similar nature.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#18. [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#19. (W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget ... that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies.
John McCain
#20. ...[W]e are in a new age in America today. It is an age in which the nuances of brown, yellow, and red are as important, if not more so, than black and white.
Ed Morales
#21. [W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.
Jon Ronson
#22. [W]e would do better to treat terrorists as common criminals, people who have broken the laws recognized by all civil societies. To treat them as soldiers is to increase their power, respectability, and commitment.
Nel Noddings
#23. [W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.
Howard Zinn
#24. [W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties, in the foolish hope that a bigger government will provide greater security.
Larry P Arnn
#25. [W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
Meister Eckhart
#26. [W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
Joseph Hall
#27. [W]e ignore the Whole, we're taken in by the parts. We're seduced by objects of our consciousness
Steve Hagen
#29. [W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#30. Where did you get that candy again?" Leven asked, worried.
"The pile said 'flavored'," Clover answered back, his face a chocolatey mess.
"Flavored?" Leven said exasperated. "Are you sure?"
"Yes," Clover argued. "F-l-a-w-e-d
flavored.
Obert Skye
#31. [W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.
Eduard Suess
#32. Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.
Annie Leonard
#33. I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
Andre Holland
#34. [W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start
Frank Jackson
#35. [W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.
Paul Krugman
#36. [In Baptism] [W]e didn't really die. We weren't really buried. We weren't really crucified and raised again. We imitated these symbolically - yet our salvation was a reality!
Scott Hahn
#37. In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling his twoness
an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body.
Ron Suskind
#38. [W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
Charles Hartshorne
#39. [W]e're creating ... an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.
George W. Bush
#40. [W]e are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.
Rafael Sabatini
#41. [W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle.
Louise Seaman Bechtel
#42. We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage ... w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.
John Diefenbaker
#43. [W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.
Giacomo Casanova
#44. [W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.
Ford Madox Ford
#45. God is A.W.E.S.O.M.E! HE is Always Working Extraordinary Supernatural On-time Miracles Everyday
Sommer Ellison
#46. [W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
Anthony Lane
#47. [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. ...[W]e must admit that... law must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions, but with absolute necessity...
Immanuel Kant
#49. You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you belong ... [W]e have to follow Christ along the concrete path of our daily lives so that he can transform us.
Pope Francis
#50. You can ascend to the region of blue sky and great wandering shadows. The shelter that received the risen Christ and Port in The Sheltering Sky, that comforted the mortally wounded Prince Andrei and the young W. E. B. Du Bois.
Nell Zink
#51. [W]e shall have the satisfaction of knowing that we have acted conscientiously, and have used our best judgment. And if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a worthy rather than an unworthy individual who might make use of the weapon we put in his hand to destroy us.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#52. g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois
Debois
#53. [W]e have a democracy that uses free elections to put in place known obstructionists, and a media that disproportionately gives a forum to economically driven ideology over sound science.
Noam Chomsky
#55. [W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.
Harold Feinstein
#56. Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.
John Lennon
#57. A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#58. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
E.W. Howe
#59. Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
E.W. Howe
#60. Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
E.W. Howe
#61. Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E.W. Howe
#62. When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
E.W. Howe
#63. There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#64. In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#66. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#67. Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
E.W. Howe
#68. Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
E.W. Howe
#69. When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#70. A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.
W.E. Woodward
#71. I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#72. There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.
E.W. Howe
#73. In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#74. You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.
E.W. Howe
#75. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E.W. Howe
#76. One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
E.W. Howe
#77. Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
E.W. Howe
#78. I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
E.W. Howe
#79. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#80. Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
E.W. Howe
#81. I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#82. A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
E.W. Howe
#83. A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
E.W. Howe
#84. Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#85. The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#86. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
E.W. Howe
#87. A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#88. To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.
Rashers Tierney
#89. Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom.
E.W. Kenyon
#90. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#91. One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e; in other words, that a playwright is more of a craftsman than an artist of the big novel.
Simon McBurney
#92. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
E.W. Howe
#93. From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#94. Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#95. Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
E.W. Howe
#96. I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfort, and cleanliness. It is worth going all over Europe in order to come home to one's own bed.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#97. And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#98. A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
E.W. Howe
#99. The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#100. And yet this does not touch the kernel of the problem. Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity.
W.E.B. Du Bois
