10 Quotes for the Historic Times We're Experiencing

Going through my files of writing/research stuff, I came across a few pages of quotes I’d collected some years ago, and I thought they certainly fit the momentous times we’re living in right now, so I picked 10 that seemed most fitting.

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“Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” ~ Rose Kennedy

“The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.” ~ Carl Jung

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.” ~ Albert Pine

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“When I despair, I remember that all through history, the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.” ~ Voltaire

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“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” ~ Dietrich Boenhoffer

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” ~ Einstein

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” ~ Helen Keller

“A simple child…
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?” ~ William Wordsworth (‘We Are Seven’)

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