I know it’s difficult, but from time to time, we need to rethink our so-called ‘principles’ and ‘values’ and hopefully realign ourselves in truth (verifiable facts) and reality…

Some Poignant Quotations to Help That Realignment

“When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.”
— Albert Einstein

“I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
— Howard Zinn

“We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.”
— Mark Twain

“Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.”
― Todd Garlington

“The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.”
― Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
— Oscar Wilde

“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
— Everett Dirksen

“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
— Alfred Adler

“To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”
— Richard Feynman

“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”
— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
— Christopher Hitchens

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man