It Is Better To Die On Your Feet Than To Live Quotes

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever
human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor,
never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor,
never the tormented.
- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor
(The Nobel Peace Prize speech, 1986)

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.
I myself prefer to laugh, since
there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut

Patriotism means to stand by the country.
It does not mean to stand by the President.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Education is an admirable thing.
But it is well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
The man who never reads lives only one.
- George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons.