
„... the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.“
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
— Anthony de Mello, Context: Mostly the discontent that you feel comes from not having enough of something — you are dissatisfied because you think you do not have enough money or power or success or fame or virtue or love or holiness. This is not the discontent that leads to the joy of the kingdom. Its source is greed and ambition and its fruit is restlessness and frustration. The day you are discontented not because you want more of something but without knowing what it is you want; when you are sick at heart of everything you are pursuing so far and you are sick of the pursuing itself, then your heart will attain a great clarity, an insight that will cause you mysteriously to delight in everything and in nothing.
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
— Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
— Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin French philosopher and Jesuit priest 1881 - 1955
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Context: Sometimes we try to justify this unsavory business on the cynical ground that by rationing out the means of violence we can somehow control the world’s violence. The fact is that we cannot have it both ways. Can we be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war?
"A Community of the Free" address at the The Foreign Policy Association NY, NY (23 June 1976); this is often paraphrased: We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
— Sun Tzu ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty -543 - 251 a.C.
— Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
— Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
— Jesse Owens American track and field athlete 1913 - 1980
As quoted in People In America : "Jesse Owens" by Barbara Dash http://web.archive.org/web/20071219045105/http://voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2002-06/a-2002-06-07-2-1.cfm on VOA (7 June 2002)
— John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914
Muir's marginal note in volume I of Prose Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson (This volume is located at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. See Albert Saijo, "Me, Muir, and Sierra Nevada", in Reinhabiting a Separate Country: A Bioregional Anthology of Northern California, edited by Peter Berg, San Francisco, California: Planet Drum Foundation, 1978, pages 52-59, at page 55, and Frederick W. Turner, Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours (1985), page 193.)
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -322 a.C.
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924