Not exactly my favorite quotes- For most I just did various searches on figures I like, or some quotes I found interesting regardless of source. Most of the books where my favorite quotations actually are are in my house and not with me in college.
General
Aldo Leopold
•"A hobby is a defiance of the contemporary. It is an assertion of those permanent values which the momentary eddies of social evolution have contravened or overlooked. If this is true, then we may also say that every hobbyist is inherently a radical, and that his tribe is inherently a minority." (Round River- it'd probably make better sense in context)
•"In human history, we have learned (I hope) that the conqueror role is eventually self-defeating. Why? Because it is implicit in such a role that the conqueror knows, ex cathedra, just what makes the community clock tick, and just what and who is valuable, and what and who is worthless, in community life. It always turns out that he knows neither, and this is why his conquests eventually defeat themselves." (A Sand County Almanac)
J. Baird Callicott
•"Ethics and society or community are correlative" (The Conceptual Foundation of the Land Ethic)
Henry David Thoreau
•Kings and queens who wear a suit but once, though made by some tailor or dress-maker to their majesties, cannot know the comfort of wearing a suit that fits. They are no better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on. (Walden)
on racism and hate
•"It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show, and the host said, 'Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?' So I looked at the camera and said, 'Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate.'" (Margaret Cho)
•The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. (Martin Luther King, Jr)
Miscellaneous
•I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. (Martin Luther King, Jr)
•One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. (Martin Luther King, Jr)
•The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. (Denis Diderot)
•It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. (Denis Diderot)
•What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
•People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
•"The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." (William Hazlitt)
Quotes from previous posts that I enjoyed
•Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)
•I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. (Albert Einstein)
•I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. (Bertrand Russell)
•A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. (Bertrand Russell)
•You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. (Winston Churchill)
Novels
Douglas Adams
•"Ah," said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of." (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
•[Ford:] "It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
[Arthur:] "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
[Ford:] "You ask a glass of water." (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
•[Ford:] "Life," he said, "is like a grapefruit."
[creature:] "Er, how so?"
[Ford:] "Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast." (So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish)
•The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
•For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Richard Adams
•"El-ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." (Watership Down- one of my all time favorite novels!)
Frank Herbert
•I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. (Dune, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear)
•Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson. (Dune)
•He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man. There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then? Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough." (Dune)
•There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. (Dune Messiah)
•I was baptized in sand and it cost me the knack of believing. Who trades in faiths anymore? Who'll buy? Who'll sell? (Dune Messiah)
•There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. (Dune Messiah)
•You comfort me with thorns. (Dune Messiah)
•Ideas are most to be feared when they become actions. (Dune Messiah)
•A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation. (Dune Messiah)
Neil Gaiman
•"I am honor-bound to warn you to stay on the path through the castle. Straying from the path could mean your destruction. ... You killed my friend, woman. Stray from your path." (The Kindly Ones)
Wilfred Owen (one of my favorite poets 
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•If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(from Dulce et decorum est)
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