Who am I Quotes

Adrienne Rich, lecture, Scripps College (Claremont, California,

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Memory is a nutriment, and seeds stored for centuries can still germi-nate. -Adrienne Rich, lecture, Scripps College (Claremont, California,
1983), Blood, Bread, and Poetry
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Margaret Thatcher, interview, The Washington Post (Washington, DC), 1989

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Graciousness has been replaced by surliness in much of everyday life.
-Margaret Thatcher, interview, The Washington Post (Washington,
D.C.), 1989
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A. E. Housman, No. IX, Last Poems, 1922

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We for a certainty are not the first / Have sat in taverns while the tem-pest hurled / Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed / Whatever
brute and blackguard made the world. -A. E. Housman, No. IX, Last
Poems, 1922
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Václav Havel, quoted in The International Herald Tribune (Paris), 1990

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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human
heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human
responsibility. -Václav Havel, quoted in The International Herald
Tribune (Paris), 1990
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Martin Amis, quoted in The Guardian (London), 2001

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Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what
has been called "species consciousness"-something over and above
nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities. -Martin Amis, quoted in
The Guardian (London), 2001
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Peace Pilgrim, Her Life and Work

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The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving,
so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they
need while others in the world still have less than they need. -
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Epitaph for the Race of Man," Wine from These Grapes, 1939

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... What frosty fate's in store / For the warm
blood of man,-man, out of ooze / But lately
crawled, and climbing up the shore?
-Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Epitaph for the Race of Man,"
Wine from These Grapes, 1939
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Germaine de Staël, The Influence of Literature upon Society, 1800

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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's
power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must
be strengthened. -Germaine de Staël, The Influence of Literature upon
Society, 1800
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Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, 1986

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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest
point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get
around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. -Václav Havel, Disturbing
the Peace, 1986
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Sam Harris, The End of Faith, 2005

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Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith;
where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the
world and to one another. -Sam Harris, The End of Faith, 2005