Jonnie's Favorite Quotes
November 19, 2020
by Lara Kimber
Here are some of Jonnie's favorite quotes she originally shared on her Facebook profile:
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
- Emma Goldman
"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."
- Bob Dylan
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"
- Jimi Hendrix
"You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
-The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin
"I will die a slave to principles, not to men."
- Emiliano Zapata
"I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive.
My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug in return."
- Langston Hughes
“Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.”
― bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
"It takes personal integrity to achieve unconditional liberty."
- author unknown
"It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived."
- author unknown
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
-Lao Tzu
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
"A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays in the maze."
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
"To be hopeful in bad times is NOT foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that Human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to ACT."
- Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Religion is regarded by the gullible as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
- Seneca
"Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire
"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen
“I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.”
- Michael Bakunin 1814-1876
"Well, I am one who doesn't believe in deluding myself. I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn't need any legislation; you wouldn't need any amendments to the Constitution; you wouldn't be faced with civil-rights filibustering in Washington, D.C., right now. They don't have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a Polack an American."
- Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet.
"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good."
- Elizabeth Edwards
"Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity."
- Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
“The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.”
- Lynn Lavner
“I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.”
- Michael Bakunin 1814-1876
And ripped from Keith: "We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give."
- Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia)
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver
"Women and Cats will do as they please, and Men and Dogs should relax and get used to the idea"
- Robert A. Heinlein
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
"Why people tell you something is as important as what they tell you."
- Me (Jonnie)
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
- Emma Goldman
"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."
- Bob Dylan
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"
- Jimi Hendrix
"You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
-The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin
"I will die a slave to principles, not to men."
- Emiliano Zapata
"I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive.
My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug in return."
- Langston Hughes
“Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.”
― bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
"It takes personal integrity to achieve unconditional liberty."
- author unknown
"It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived."
- author unknown
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
-Lao Tzu
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
"A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays in the maze."
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
"To be hopeful in bad times is NOT foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that Human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to ACT."
- Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Religion is regarded by the gullible as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
- Seneca
"Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire
"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen
“I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.”
- Michael Bakunin 1814-1876
"Well, I am one who doesn't believe in deluding myself. I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn't need any legislation; you wouldn't need any amendments to the Constitution; you wouldn't be faced with civil-rights filibustering in Washington, D.C., right now. They don't have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a Polack an American."
- Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet.
"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good."
- Elizabeth Edwards
"Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity."
- Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
“The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.”
- Lynn Lavner
“I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.”
- Michael Bakunin 1814-1876
And ripped from Keith: "We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give."
- Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia)
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver
"Women and Cats will do as they please, and Men and Dogs should relax and get used to the idea"
- Robert A. Heinlein
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
"Why people tell you something is as important as what they tell you."
- Me (Jonnie)