Benjamin Quotes
With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.
There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.
I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.
Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.
To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.
Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.
If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.
It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S
A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.
He that lives upon hope will die farting.
I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.
How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.
Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.
Life is full of constant changes and learning to reinvent yourself throughout them.Why not start today reinventing yourself into becoming a better you!
Live your dreams. Live your life to the greatest.The more you believe ...the more you will achieve
The will to win begins in your mind.So constantly strive for excellence and greatness in your time.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.
It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
