Rose Pastor Stokes quotes

“Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.”
-- Rose Pastor Stokes

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“No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.”
-- Rose Pastor Stokes

#Government Quotes #People Quotes

“Whether you believe in a creed, or what you call religion, or not, there is something in Socialism that must move you. How can you love God, whom you have not seen, if you do not love your fellow man, whom you have seen?”
-- Rose Pastor Stokes

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“My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.”
-- Rose Pastor Stokes

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“Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!”
-- Rose Pastor Stokes

#Poverty Quotes #Helping Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.”
-- Rose Pastor Stokes

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“There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.”
-- Rose Pastor Stokes

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“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

“Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.”

“After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”

“Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup!”

“Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.”

“No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.”

“How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?”

“It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.”