Gaiman, Neil.

Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

Galileo Galilei

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Gandhi, Mohandas K.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

But one thing took deep root in me - the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality.

I had already crossed the Sahara of atheism.

I have experienced five or seven times in my life that one, whom God wishes to save, cannot fall even if he will. If I did not fall I cannot take any credit for it to mysef.

Formerly, men were made slaves under physical compulsion. Now they are enslaved by temptation of money and of the luxuries that money can buy.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

History is really a record of every interruption of the even working of the force of love or of the soul.

Everybody admits that sacrifice of self is infinitely superior to sacrifice of others. Moreover, if this kind of force is used in a cause that is unjust, only the person using it suffers. He does not make others suffer for his mistakes. Men have before now done many things which were subsequently found to have been wrong. No man can claim that he is absolutely in the right or that a particular thing is wrong because he thinks so, but it is wrong for him so long as that is his deliberate judgment. It is therefore meet that he should not do that which he knows to be wrong, and suffer the consequence whatever it may be. This is the key to the use of soul-force.

It is a superstition and ungodly thing to believe that an act of a majority binds a minority. Many examples can be given in which acts of majorities will be found to have been wrong and those of minorities to have been right. All reforms owe their origin to the initiation of minorities in opposition to majorities.

Who is the true warrior - he who keeps death always as a bosom-fried, or he who controls the death of others?

Passive resistance is an all-sided sword, it an be used anyhow; it bless him who uses it and him against whom it is used. Without drawing a drop of blood it produces far-reaching results. It never rusts and cannot be stolen. Competition between passive resisters does not exhause. The sword of passive resistance dies not require a scabbard.

When a man abandons truth, he does so owing to fear in some shape or form.

The things that will destroy us are:
politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work;
knowledge without character;
business without morality;
science without humanity;
and worship without sacrifice.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that as evil can only be sustained by violence, withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence.

No empire intoxicated with red wine of power and plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world, and this British Empire, which is based upon organized exploitation of physically weaker races of the earth and upon a continuous exhibition of brute force, cannot live if there is a just God ruling the universe.

Before one can be fit for the practice of civil disobedience one must have rendered a willing and respectful obedience to the state laws. For the most part we obey such laws out of fear of the penalty for their breach, and this holds good partucularly in respect of such laws as do not involve a moral principle.

There are two aspects, the outward and the inward. It is purely a matter of emphasis with me. The outward has no meaning to me at all except in so far as it helps the inward. All true Art is the expression of the soul. The outward forms have value only in so far as they are the expression of the inner spirit of man.

The student Ramachandran asked, But cannot Beauty be separated from Truth and Truth from Beauty?
The Mahatma: I should want to know exactly what is Beauty. If it is what people generally understand by that word, then they are wide apart. Is a woman with fair features necessarily beautiful?
Ramachandran: Yes.
Gandhiji: Even if she may be of an ugly character?

But the artists claim to see and to find Truth through outward beauty, said Ramachandran. Is it possible to see and find Truth in that way?
Gandhiji said, I would reverse the order. I see and find beauty through Truth.

Garrett, Leslie.

It is the boy who creates the dream; how could he forsee the man? The man always fails the boy's dream.

Gates, Bill

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Gibbon, Edward

In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free.

Gibran, Kahlil. Sand And Foam

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Turtles can tell more about the road than hares.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold;
And I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Gingrich, Newt, Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 1995

The weaker you want the bonds of coercion, the greater the strength of your culture has to be. That's the essence of de Tocqueville's message, that a free society has to be deeply committed to imprinting its civilization if it intends to have a very limited government. You're either bound together by a strong state or you're bound together by a strong culture.

Glasgow, Ellen. The Romantic Comedians

The only difference between a rut and a grave is in their dimensions.

Goering, Hermann. The Romantic Comedians

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

Goethe

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Goldberg, Justice Arthur

It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.

Goreau, Angeline. NY Times Book Review: review of Slowness, by Milan Kundera, July 7, 1996

Modernism was once synonymous with experiment, but since the invention of mass media, it has embraced "received ideas" with an enthusiasm for conformity that borders on the totalitarian.

Goya, Francisco. Los Caprichos, Nr. 18

El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstruos. (When reason sleeps, monsters of superstition awake.)

Gracian, Baltasar.

Good impulses spring from a happy readiness of spirit. For such a spirit there are no tight spots, no troubling chance occurrences, only vivacity and brio. Some think much, and then do everything wrong, and others get everything right without any forethought at all.

Grant, R. H.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

Grove, Andy, CEO Intel Corp., Quoted in Fortune, July 10, 1995 issue

Only the paranoid survive.

Guicciardini. Ricordi

Chi ha tempo ha vita. (While there's time, there's life.)

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