"A destruction, (.....) man can provoke, only man can prevent." is a quote from which Elie Wiesel book?
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I've read Night, Dawn, and The Accident several times each. The quote didn't sound familiar, so I WikiQuoted it...\n\n"A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other." \nIt's from a Nobel Lecture, 11 Decemeber, 1986.
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Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -David Dunham \n\nA pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ---Winston Churchill\n\nA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ---Francis Bacon\n\nAbility is nothing without opportunity.   ---Napoleon Bonaparte\n\nAging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength. ---Betty Friedan\n\nAll’s grist that comes to the mill.  ---Proverb\n\nAny ritual is an opportunity for transformation.   ---Starhawk\n\nBe an opener of doors.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson\n\nBe cautious. Opportunity does the knocking for temptation too.   ---Al Batt\n\nCircumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs. ---Mario Andretti\n\nCivil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ---Mary Frances Berry\n\nCruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. \n---George Eliot\n\nCultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.  ---Robert Millikan\n\nDemocracy does not guarantee equality, only equality of opportunity. ---Irving Kristol\n\nDo not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. ---William Butler Yeats\n\nDon’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.    ---Lily Tomlin
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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." \n-Plato
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Here are some good ones, I'm not sure which "famous quote" you mean.\n\n\nWit is educated insolence.\n\nHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.\n\nObstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.\n\nThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.\n\nAnyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.
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This quote comes from Orwells book "1984". He wrote the book so I assume he is the source of the quote.
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No but that is a fantastic quote.\n\nFound it!  Thomas Dewar
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At least we try. \n\n"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." \n\n-Albert Einstein
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You are upsetting me.  I have searched all of Orwell's works with that quote and no source is turning up, just that it is a quote attributed to Orwell.  I have read 1984 several times, and this quote is ringing all kinds of bells.  It has to be from that book.  I will keep looking for it.  It is personal now.\n\nGot it...\n"The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell" Volume 4, page 51
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Looks like the quote is Harvey Mackay, a motivational speaker.  Couldn't tell you what book it might be from, but I do have a website...\n\nwww.mackay.com
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Thomas Jefferson said:\n\nTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty\n\nI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it\n\nThose who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one
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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"\n\n-Ralph Wiggum
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Thomas Jefferson is my political hero so it's not surprising that I agree wholeheartedly. Interestingly, one of Jefferson's contemporaries in Great Britain made a similar quotation which happens to be a personal favourite of mine. His name was Edmund Burke and this is what he said:\n\n"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."\n\nSee the similarity? Basically, the message is the same and it's particularly relevant today. If good men and women of conscience are unwilling to stand up and be counted, to speak out or to take action when necessary, then the villains win. Of course it's easier and safer to remain silent like sheep in the fold, but is the easy and safe way always best? I hardly think so. Sometimes you have to make a stand, take up a cause or vote with your feet. And some causes are quite literally worth fighting and dying for. If others who came before us hadn't thought so and demonstrated that belief at the cost of their own lives, where would we be now?
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Also translated as "Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust," the quote comes from Voltaire's "Questions sur les miracles" (1765).  \n\nIn the original French, the quote is: "Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde est en droit de vous rendre injuste."
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"Every now and then the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants."\n\n\n Thomas Jefferson.\n\n\n AKA Hell yeah. Vive la revolution!
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Benjamin Franklin:\n\n"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n\nIt's one of my all-time favorite quotes!\n\n.
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Hunter S. Thompson. The entire quote is: 'Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"' \n\nHope I helped!!
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To quote Clarence Darrow:\n\n"In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality."