- Professor of Anthropology and Political Science. The Pontifical Catholic University, the National Museum UFRJ, and the Universitarian Institute of Researchs
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"I defend the cause of the poor, of the manufacturer, of the tradesman, of the farmer, but above all, I defend the cause of humanity. My country is the world and my religion is to do good"
Thomas Paine
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles"
Christopher Reeve
"Fall down nine times; stand up ten times"
Japanese proverb
Charity is no substitute for justice witheld.
Saint Augustine
A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil Gibran
Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who celebrate but for those who love, time is eternal.
William Shakespeare
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner
Learn to see and appreciate the people who choose to understand you, with or without problems!
Good actions give strength to ourselves. And inspire good actions in others.
Plato
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian
How much is our life worth if we don't stand for anything and conform to a trivial lifestyle that will leave us empty and unfulfilled when it's all set and done?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
History is dedicated to those who went before us, so that upon reflection, we can learn from them, without repeating their mistakes, experiencing or inflicting their pain.
~ Anon
To be young, really young, it takes a long time.
~ Pablo Picasso
If you live your life out of memory, you live out of your history. That's what once was. If you live out of your imagination, you live out of your potential. That's what can be.
~ Unknown
It isn't that they can't see the solution,. It's that they can't see the problem.
~ Gilbert Keith
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
~ Oscar Wilde
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." Alfred North Whitehead
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others" A. Rand
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
A man was not made to shut up his mind in itself, but to give it voice and to exchange it for other minds.
~William Ellery
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life
Eleonor Roosevelt
Happiness isn't something you postpone for the future. It is something you design for the present.
~Jim Rohn
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
~Mel Brooks
Don't look back, unless it's a good view.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
~ Vince Lombardi
Cherish every moment. You don't know when will it happen again.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you. They're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~ Bernice Johnson Reagan
Life is an island in an ocean of loneliness, an island whose rocks are hopes, whose trees are dreams, whose flowers are solitude, and whose brooks are thirst.
~Kahlil Gibran
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
~Harry S. Truman
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is growing up.
~James Baldwin
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
~Sam Keen
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
~Virgil
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one." Mother Teresa
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
~William James
"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self centered. Love them anyway."
Mother Teresa
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
~Charles Dickens
If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.
Hilary Stanton
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~Mother Teresa
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“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” Mahatma Gandhi
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this
body, but you will never imprison my mind.” Mahatma Gandhi
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When you fully trust a person without any doubt, you'll finally get one of two results: A person for life or a lesson for life.
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A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation; doesn't always need togetherness, As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part
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** The name Everton orginated as an English name. It means hardy, brave, variant of Everard. Someone strong and brave like a wild boar, bow warrior
** Jobim family : Jobbins, Joblin, Jobling, Joplin, and Jopling. France.
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Everton speaks
English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese
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Creativity, service, altruism, integrity, accountability, human dignity, and social justice.
Sensitivity to diversity, responsible leadership, excellence, environmental concerns, and lifelong learning.
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"My first, my last, my everything, and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star. My kind of wonderful, that's what you are" "Eres el aire que respiro dentro de mi, te amare hasta el dia de mi muerte, eres mi realidad y mas. Desde cuando estas conmigo eres el sueño que me despierta, de mis sueños, te amarè hasta el dia de mi muerte. Cada cosa bella, que de vida hablarà. Tu seràs la voz" (Barry White and Luciano Pavarotti)
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"Amigos para siempre means you'll always be my friend. Amics per sempre means a love that cannot end. Friends for life, not just a summer or a spring. Amigos para siempre. I feel you near me, even when we are apart. Just knowing you are in this world, can warm my heart. Friends for life, not just a summer or a spring. Amigos para siempre"
(Sarah Brightman)
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OTHER NAMES
FAVORITE QUOTES
- The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de Tocqueville
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field
Albert Einstein
Take good things from bad things. Take good things from the western culture and put down bad thing apart
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Thomas Paine :
"I defend the cause of the poor, of the manufacturer, of the tradesman, of the farmer, but above all, I defend the cause of humanity.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice"
"The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind"
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"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object"
"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government"
(Thomas Jefferson)
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America :
E Pluribus Unum : "Out of many, one"
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Free and open society, the balance of the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, no one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. Fair taxes for all.
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"Question with boldness, for if there is a God, He must surely prefer bold questions to blind faith"
(Thomas Jefferson)
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"Justice is primarily a possible, but not a necessary, quality of a social order regulating the mutual relations of men. Only secondarily it is a virtue of man, since a man is just, if his behavior conforms to the norms of a social order supposed to be just. But what does it really mean to say that a social order is just? It means that this order regulates the behavior of men in a way satisfactory to all men, that is to say, so that all men find their happiness in it. The longing for justice is men's eternal longing for happiness. It is happiness that men cannot find alone, as an isolated individual, and hence seeks in society. Justice is social happiness. It is happiness guaranteed by a social order"
(Hans Kelsen)
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“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”
(Immanuel Kant)
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“To employ the coercive apparatus of the state in order to maintain manifestly unjust institutions is itself a form of illegitimate force that men in due course have a right to resist.”
“Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.”
(John Rawls)
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John Kenneth Galbraith :
"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership"
"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought"
"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events"
" The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable"
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'Keynes thought that in the end, ideas ruled the roost; Galbraith thought it was structures of power. He looked for amelioration of social conditions'
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"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies"
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one"
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty"
(Mother Teresa)
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“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot”
(The Hausa of Nigeria)
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"The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
(Schopenhauer)
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Mahatma Gandhi :
"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."
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ"
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony"
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress"
"Hate the sin, love the sinner"
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"
"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality"
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will"
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"
"You must be the change you want to see in the world"
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty"
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Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom"
"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships"
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith"
“The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other”
"Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom."
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore”
(Andre Gide)
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"Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded"
"The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion"
(Friedrich August von Hayek)
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"That which does not kill me, makes me stronger"
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
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"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus"
"A lie cannot live"
"A right delayed is a right denied"
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness"
"The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right"
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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La difficulté attire l’homme de caractère, car c’est en l’étreignant qu’il se réalise lui-même.
L'autorité ne va pas sans prestige, ni le prestige sans l'éloignement.
Les choses capitales qui ont été dites à l’humanité ont toujours été des choses simples.
Charles de Gaulle
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"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
"A true friend is one soul in two bodies"
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire"
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal"
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers"
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them"
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity"
(Aristotle)
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former, Being, be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter, time, be addressed as a being.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history
(Martin Heidegger)
"All men by nature desire knowledge"
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst"
"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion"
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms"
(Aristotle)
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Education starts the digmity, while giving you the virtue in your soul
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
(Plato)
"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil"
"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures"
"No human thing is of serious importance"
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation"
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil"
(Plato)
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“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong”
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
(John Maynard Keynes)
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"According to the ideology of the American Dream, America is the land of limitless opportunity in which individuals can go as far as their own merit takes them. According to this ideology, you get out of the system what you put into it. Getting ahead is ostensibly based on individual merit, which is generally viewed as a combination of factors including innate abilities, working hard, having the right attitude, and having high moral character and integrity. Americans not only tend to think that is how the system should work, but most Americans also think that is how the system does work (Huber and Form 1973, Kluegel and Smith 1986, Ladd 1994).
In our book The Meritocracy Myth (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), we challenge the validity of these commonly held assertions, by arguing that there is a gap between how people think the system works and how the system actually does work. We refer to this gap as “the meritocracy myth,” or the myth that the system distributes resources, especially wealth and income, according to the merit of individuals"
Stephen J. McNamee
Robert K. Miller, Jr.
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Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age”.
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"Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts"
(Plotinus)
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Ordoliberals
Ordoliberals were influenced by Aristotle, Tocqueville, Hegel, Spengler, Karl Mannheim, Max Weber, and Husserl.
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Martin Heidegger :
"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being"
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
"Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former, Being, be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter, time, be addressed as a being"
"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history"
"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics"
"Transcendence constitutes selfhood"
"The most thought provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking"
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Charles de Gaulle :
"Je suis un homme qui n'appartient à personne et qui appartient à tout le monde"
"La politique, quand elle est un art et un service, non point une exploitation, c'est une action pour un idéal à travers des réalités"
"Le talent est un titre de responsabilité"
"Le patriotisme, c'est aimer son pays. Le nationalisme, c'est détester celui des autres"
"Peut-être la politique est-elle l'art de mettre les chimères à leur place ? On ne fait rien de sérieux si on se soumet aux chimères, mais que faire de grand sans elles"
"La grandeur a besoin de mystère. On admire mal ce qu'on connaît bien"
"L'ambition individuelle est une passion enfantine"
"Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back"
"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro"
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians"
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"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought"
"Revenge is a poison meant for others, which we end up swallowing ourselves"
"Love is the song of the soul, a symphony of sorrow and joy"
Safdar Niazi
"The best things in life are not things"
"The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open"
"The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them"
"Vengeance is a Dark Light that blinds all who seek it"
"Predictions are nothing but warnings, until they happen"
"Life is only as good as you make it"
"To prevent a mistake is better than to correct it"
"Tough times last, but tough people must last longer"
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to"
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"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach"
"It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you"
"The greatest boundaries that we face in our lives are very often the ones we ourselves creates in our minds."
"It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate"
"Everyone wants to be your sun, but what someone really needs is a moon so it can light up your darkest moments when your sun isn’t around"
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem"
~ Bill
Vaughan
"Do not bargain for fish which are still in the water"
"Use your eyes for sight, but see with your heart. Use your ears to hear, but listen with intuation. Use your feet to move, but let your soul lead the way"
"Don't go through life, grow through life"
Eric Butterworth
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated"
~ Alec Bourne
"In words, love can be read. In actions love can be measured. But others don't know that even in silence, love can be heard."
"A fools brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition and art into pedantry"
~George Bernard Shaw
"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality"
"Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid"
Albert Schweitzer
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." Plato
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed" Dwight Eisenhower
"Japanese attitude for work: 'If one can do it, I can do it. If no one can do it, I must do it.'
"If darkness is the absence of light, hunger is the absence of food, then we can consider that anything we hate is the absence of something else. And all we need to do is search for what's missing, instead of sitting down and crying over what we hate and cannot change."
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
"Friendship is the outcome of two persons in harmony who met together by chance and decided to continue as friends by choice"
C. S. Lewis writes in his book Mere Christianity,
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust?"
"What we would like to do is change the world, make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the poor, of the destitute.... We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world." Dorothy Day
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." Gabriel García Márquez
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." A. Einstein
When everything seems to be against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~ Henry Ford
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
~ Andy Warhol
“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
Dalai Lama
"If we become as unjust as the enemy it makes us no better than the enemy"
Priscilla M. Dicus
You dont drawn by falling in water,you drawn by staying
there.
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature , but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
~Isaac Friedman
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have travelled from the point where they started."
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
~Mohandas Gandhi
"A fool tells you what he will do; a boaster what he has done. The wise man does it and says nothing."
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
~ Cicero
"Silence can sometimes connect the dots , better than any word can"
"Doubt will keep hitting you, even if you are on the right track."
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
(Abdallah II)
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
(Nicola Abbagnano)
"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground."
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
(Jules Renard)
My biggest fear is that I will become too comfortable with the idea of being lonely for the rest of my life.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
(Dante)
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
(Aristotle)
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
(Martin Luther King, Jr)
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
(George Bernard Shaw)
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
(Seneca)
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In prosperity, our friend know us. In adversity, we know our friends.
~John Churton Collins
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
~Pierce Abelard
"If you're intelligent, you're admired. If you're wealthy, you're envied. If you're powerful, you're feared. But if you're blessed with a good heart, you're remembered".
Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.
~ Martin Luther King
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail sometimes.
~ Napoleon Hill
"We never know the love of parents for us till we have become parents"
~ Henry Ward Beecher
"People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Truth is, you knew what you had, you just never thought you’d lose it"
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
~ Dinah Shore
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
~ David McKay
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
~ Keri Russel
"There is gonna be something in life that are going to make it hard for you to smile, but through all you see, all the rain and all the pain, you have to keep your sense of humor and keep on smiling."
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
"It is lawful for a man to hold private property" but "Man should not consider his outward possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need..."
Thomas Aquinas
What we want most is a secret that no one can tell us
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
Caleb Colton
The roughest road often leads to the top.
Christina Aguilera
Happiness is not an illusion, pain is not imagination, reality is not a dream.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Soren Kierkegaard
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
Nietzsche
Be good and you will be lonesome.
~Mark Twain
“Everything happens as if the enormous sense of disillusionment provoked both by the collapse of the Communist brand of mystification and by the silly spectacle of the actual functioning of ‘democracy’ were leading everyone to lose their will to bother themselves any more about politics in the true sense of the term, the word itself having become synonymous with crooked schemes and suspect maneuverings.”
Cornelius Ca
