Consider This!

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.

—Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

An idea is salvation by imagination.

—Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

—"Song of Myself", Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

—John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

—Roseanne Barr (1952- )

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

—Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

—John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster—it is an opportunity.

—Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

—John Cage (1912-1992)

If you ask us what's going to happen in the near future, we have no fucking idea. Sorry for using the word 'idea.'

—Subcommander Marcos (?- )

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

—Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Dare to be naive.

—R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

—Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989)