#mignon mclaughlin

[askyea-poesy]

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

Mignon McLaughlin

[ragazzoarcano]

“Non illudetevi che le cose importanti possano essere rimandate fino a domani; i casi sono due... O possono essere rimandate per sempre o devono essere fatte ora.”

— Mignon Mclaughlin

[profeminist]

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” — Mignon McLaughlin

[jadeseadragon]

"To find yourself - think for yourself."

- Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)

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"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1834 - 1872)

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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

- Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)

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"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself … aloud."

- Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971)

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"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead trouble makers."

- Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)

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"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."

- Charlotte P. Gillman (1860 - 1935)

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"Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity are both uncivilized and undemocratic."

- Mohandis (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

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"There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense; for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads."

- William Edelen (b. 1922)

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"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."

- Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989) Political Activist

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"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."

- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929) French statesman

[macrolit]

Women are good listeners, but it’s a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there is something specific you want him to do.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author

[lunamarish]

La nostalgia per quello che abbiamo perso è più sopportabile della nostalgia per quello che non abbiamo mai avuto.

Mignon McLaughlin

[art2catch]

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

- Mignon McLaughlin

painting (unfinished) by J.J.

[harrypotterhousequotes]

SLYTHERIN: “Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.” –Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook)