Quotes on Thrive

The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'

When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; _x000D_ For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.