"Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein
"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
Abraham Lincoln
"Gossip is one of the most invasive forms of cancer in narrow-minded societies."
Oz
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am."
Cormac McCarthy
"The fact that people target you, focus on you, invade your privacy, spread lies and rumors about you, put much effort into portraying a good person bad, all the while turning a blind eye to each other's sins and flaws is proof that shitty people surround us and racism, stereotyping, prejudice, and bigotry are well and alive."
Oz
"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."
William Penn
"He who treats others based on gossip is of poor character."
Oz
"One of the dumbest acts people tend to engage in is the fact that they form wrong opinions about an individual because they are all influenced by the same hater."
Oz
"People who take strength from each other in groups and do harm to another are like bunch of hyenas. Their bravery is mostly dependent on the group that supports them. They are nothing alone."
Oz
"True diversity is not reflected by the demographics. It is made up of people who are free thinkers, nonconformists and people who don't easily follow the crowds."
Oz
"Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool."
Proverbs 10:18
"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge."
Carl Jung
"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
Franklin P. Jones
"First they dehumanize you by adding a lot of lies to very little truths. They then justify their bad deeds."
Oz
"Only mediocrity escapes criticism."
John Steinbeck
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden
"I believe there is only one race - the human race."
Rosa Parks
"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself."
Unknown
"When people's self-interests are at stake, truth takes a backseat."
Oz
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
Mark Twain
"Should you ever find yourself the victim of other people's bitterness, jealousy, lies, and insecurities, don't be mad. Remember things could be worse: You could be them."
Anonymous
"Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity."
Beth Moore
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Mark Twain
"As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done."
Rosa Parks
"Lazy and a fearful mind is not only extremely
dangerous but it's also one of the main causes
of racism and bigotry."
Oz
"Mediocre minds respect arrogant people. Intelligent minds respect kind people."
Oz
"Judgement is often no more than a confession of ignorance."
Unknown
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves."
Carl Jung
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
Leo Tolstoy
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"There is a fine line between feeling patriotic and nationalistic. Conflicts start when an individual's feelings of nationalism outweighs their feelings of humanism."
Oz
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
Plato
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There are times it feels as if you're drowning and as you flap your arms in the water, people around you complain that you're splashing water on them as they hold a fancy drink."
Oz
"There are people out there who feel extreme frustration and disturbance by other people's joy and happiness. When they see someone having a good time or smiling, such people make it their duty to put an end to their happiness. These people want happy people to live in constant fear and anxiety as well as feel miserable just like themselves. Their intentions are very similar to those of Nurse Ratched's. Putting an end to Chief Bromden's rare joy during a basketball game or Billy Bibbit's happiness and confidence are great examples of such evilness displayed by Nurse Ratched."
Oz
"What people don't understand, they assume."
Oz
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
Seneca
"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
Oprah Winfrey
"Most judgments are projections of unresolved inner conflicts.
People criticize what they fear or deny in themselves.
What they think says more about their inner world than about you."
Carl Jung
"The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets."
John Mark Green