Revenge Based Civilization

“All civilization is based on revenge. Some may call it justice or laws, but knowing in some way if you mess with my stuff or with me I can mess with you and yours, have in the past few millennia kept us somewhat civilized and have stayed the hand of most sane people.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Call me Rebel

“Let them call me a rebel and welcome it. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.”
--Thomas Paine

Call for Censorship

“Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.”
--Aryeh Neier

End of the World

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
--Richard Bach

Do Not Live Same Year

“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
--Robin Sharma

Wretched Countries

“In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech; a thing terrible to public traitors.”
--Benjamin Franklin

Born Free

“We are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
--Andrew Jackson

Godliness

“If a deity is willing to prevent evil, but not able, then it is not omnipotent. If it is able, but not willing, then it is malevolent. If it is both able and willing, then whence cometh evil? If it is neither able nor willing, then why call it god?”
--Epicurus

Mind Storms

“Him I would call the powerful one who controls the storms of his mind.”
--Walter S. Landor

Know Their Name

“If you want to let someone know that they’re loved, call them by their name. After all, someone loved them enough to give them one.”
--Tom Ryan

Call it Fate

“We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.”
--Benjamin Disraeli

Everyday Life

“If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches.”
--Rainer Maria Rilke

It Is Not Work

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
--Richard Bach

Your Job, Your Passion

“The mere fact of being able to call your job your passion is success in my eyes.”
--Alicia Vikander

Answer To

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
--W.C. Fields

How Much Work

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.”
--Michelangelo (Buonarroti)

Small Victories

“Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.”
--Audre Lorde

Call It Luck

“People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.”
--Anne Tyler