S Quotes
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“So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.”
Source: The Greatest Secret In The World
“So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“So long as there is exclusivity,
You can never emerge a human being.
Abandon divide, adopt but life;
Contain the world in your chest as kin.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“So long as there is life in my veins, I won't let no extremism, arrogance and bigotry tear apart my people - my humanity.”
Source: See No Gender
“So long as there is occupation, there is no Hanukkah.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.”
“So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.”
“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. [Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood]”
Source: Les Misérables
“So long as there's a gap in your life, fill it with love.”
“So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This has always been the case.”
“So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.”
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
“So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.”
Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon
“So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.”
“So long as this struggle known as life goes on, there will always be the music to fit the mood and make it better.”
“So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.”
“So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.”
“So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.”
Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of
“So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.”
“So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.”
“So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.”
“So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.”
Source: The treasury of David: containing an original exposition of the Book of psalms
“So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.”
“So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then we will continue our present course, with its devastating consequences on the entire Earth community... We need only listen to what the Earth is telling us... the time has come when we will listen, or we will die.”
Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth
“So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.”
“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.”
Source: The Works of Booth Tarkington
“So long as we continue to put mortal men on thrones and hail them as gods, sacrifice our lives to their legacies, history will repeat itself. Just as the ocean tides ebb and flow beneath the moon, empires will rise and collapse, wars will start and cease, and the rest of us will be left to struggle against the currents.
If only I had known earlier.”
Source: A Song to Drown Rivers
“So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.”
“So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.”
“So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.”
“So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our forces are scattered, we will accomplish but little, or fail entirely. When we know what we want, however, and proceed to work for it with all the power and ability that is in us, we may rest assured that we will get it. When we direct the power of thinking, the power of will, the power of mental action, the power of desire, the power of ambition, in fact, all the power we possess on the one thing we want, on the one goal we desire to reach, it is not difficult to understand why success in a greater and greater measure must be realized.”
“So long as we do not permit faith to override our rational powers we should use those talents to explore the frontiers which lie at the outer limits of scientific observation.”
Source: Common sense renewed
“So long as we don’t try to figure out which slit [electrons] go through, they will behave as if they go through both at once. But if we try to pin down which slit they pass through, they only go through one. The mere act of making the measurement – even if we can be pretty sure that the measurement shouldn’t obstruct or influence the electron’s path – appears to turn a wave into a particle. Yes, appears to. Does the electron really pass through both slits at once when we’re not looking at its path? Does it change from wave to particle when we do look? These are, according to Bohr’s view of quantum mechanics, illegitimate questions, precisely because they are insisting on some microscopic description underlying the measurements we make. Bohr argued that there is nothing in quantum mechanics that permits us to formulate such a description. That is not what the Schrödinger equation is about. It just predicts the outcomes of measurements.”
Source: Beyond Weird
“So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.”
“So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.”
“So long as we have a law that is exploitable by individuals in power, it is imperative that every thinking human stands up to such law, even if it means going against the state, because like the law of today, state itself is not incorruptible.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims.”
Source: The American Federationist
“So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the needs of our children and harden our hearts against them, we will continue to feel torn, dissatisfied, and exhausted…. The guilt we feel for neglecting our children is a byproduct of our love for them. It keeps us from straying too far from them, for too long. Their cry should be more compelling than the call from the office.”
Source: What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
“So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.”
“So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?”
Source: To Sir, With Love
“So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.”
“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
“So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.”
“So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.”
Source: Endgame
“So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda