DEATH & PERSECUTION
DEATH
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Dolores Ibarruri
I die because I do not die.
St John of the Cross
A name made great is a name destroyed.
Hillel
Cowards may die many times before their deaths.
William Shakespeare
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
If a man hasnt discovered something he will die for, he isnt fit to live.
Martin Luther King
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frohman
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato
As a man leaves an old garment and puts on one that is new, the spirit leaves his mortal body and puts on one that is new.
Bhagavadgita
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.
Og Mandino
Best while you have it use your breath, there is no drinking after death.
John Fletcher
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrick Nietzsche
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mohandas Gandhi
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King
Pale Death breaks into the cottages of the poor as into the castles of kings.
Horace
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
Katherine Mansfield
PERSECUTION
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.
Lord Milner
You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
Vaclav Havel
First they came for the Socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Socialists. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemöller
Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned.
Heinrich Heine
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
John Neal
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies.
Gustave Falubert
We can learn even from our enemies.
Ovid
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Mid seventeenth century proverb
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Unknown
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi
In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Dolores Ibarruri
I die because I do not die.
St John of the Cross
A name made great is a name destroyed.
Hillel
Cowards may die many times before their deaths.
William Shakespeare
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
If a man hasnt discovered something he will die for, he isnt fit to live.
Martin Luther King
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frohman
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato
As a man leaves an old garment and puts on one that is new, the spirit leaves his mortal body and puts on one that is new.
Bhagavadgita
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.
Og Mandino
Best while you have it use your breath, there is no drinking after death.
John Fletcher
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrick Nietzsche
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mohandas Gandhi
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King
Pale Death breaks into the cottages of the poor as into the castles of kings.
Horace
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
Katherine Mansfield
PERSECUTION
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.
Lord Milner
You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
Vaclav Havel
First they came for the Socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Socialists. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemöller
Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned.
Heinrich Heine
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
John Neal
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies.
Gustave Falubert
We can learn even from our enemies.
Ovid
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Mid seventeenth century proverb
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Unknown
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi
In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey