A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. ~Wendy Kaminer

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. ~James Baldwin

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, "Studies in Pessimism," Psychological Observations, 1851

A woman who sells herself to buy bread for her aged mother or her child, stands upon a higher moral plane than the blushing maiden who marries a money bag, in order to gratify her frivolous appetite for parties and travel. Of two men, he is the less deceived, the more logical and rational, who pays his companion of an hour in cash, each time, than he who gets a companion for life by the marriage contract, whose society was purchased as much as in the former case. Every alliance between man and woman in which either one is influenced by the substantial or selfish advantage to be gained by it, is prostitution. ~Max Nordau, Conventional Lies of Our Civilization

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. ~Gloria Steinem

The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. ~D.H. Lawrence

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The highest virtue here may be least in another world. ~Kahlil Gibran

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust

The reverse side also has a reverse side. ~Japanese Proverb

There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth. ~Author Unknown

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~Anaïs Nin

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. ~Ian Percy

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~John Lubbock