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Perpetrate Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Perpetrate Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow

I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One who breaks an unjust law
that conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie