FYS Final Quotes

Plato/Socrates

"--that the really important thing is not to live, but to live well"(Crito 48b).

John Bunyan/Pilgrim's Progress

"Also, I fear that this burden, which is upon my back, will sink me lower than the grave. Therefore, I need to get rid of it" (Bunyan 15).

Aung San Suu Kyi

"Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it" (Kyi 1).

David Bryant

"God gave me some strength to go back with... Mark Edwards and all of you" (Bryant).

Liu Xiaobo

"Hatred only eats away at a person's intelligence and conscience, and an enemy mentality can poison the spirit of an entire people" (Xiaobo 322-323).

Poems from Guantánamo Bay

"I shall not complain to anyone other than You, even if the seas complain of dryness" ("I Shall Not Complain").

Hannah Arendt or JP Sartre

"Loneliness, as the concomitant of homelessness and uprootedness, is, humanly speaking, the very disease of our time" ( Arendt 358).

Bible

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love" (1 John 4:18, NT).

Elie Wiesel

"We did not know, as yet, which was the better side, right or left, which road led to prison and which to the crematoria" (Wiesel 32).

Martin Luther King, Jr. or Angela Davis

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed" (MLK 2).

Gandhi

"We must... refrain from crying "shame, shame" to anybody, we must not use any coercion to persuade our people to adopt our way" (Gandhi 147).

D. Bonhoeffer

"Who am I? They also tell me bore the days of misfortune equably, smilingly, proudly, like one accustomed to win" ("Who Am I").

Boethius

"Without the perfect thing, it cannot even be imagined how the imperfect ones could exist" (Book III 86).