Some are guilty, but all are responsible.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel, rabbi and professor (1907-1972)
why to stop at...?
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
- Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (29 Dec 1876-1973)
......is to prevent
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
-George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (1880-1959)
...are burned
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
-Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, and essayist (1797-1856)
what's right
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
...don't take everything away
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
Saddest words...
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)
Life has value
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.
-Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (1908-1986)
...ought to
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
- Rosalynn Carter
think...create
"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create."
- Buddha
Solutions Vs. Problems
"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."
- Brian Tracy
round the corner
Still round the corner there may wait, / a new road or a secret gate.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (1892-1973)
Status quo
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
-Max Eastman, journalist and poet (1883-1969)
Simple & complex
"It's the mark of a charlatan to try and explain simple things in complex ways and it's the mark of a genius to explain complicated things in simple ways."
- Naval Ravikant
...hatching a plot
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
-J.D. Salinger, writer (1919-2010)
Art of counseling
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
-Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher (1601-1658)
No means.... Change
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
- Steve Jobs
...to rise
"But amidst a world of uncertainty, there is a collective hope that resides. It's an evolutionary part of the human spirit: to endure, to defy the odds, to rise."
– Tony Robbins
...can get through
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
-Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator, and author (1902-2001)
ugly in nature?
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
-Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917)
...not expressing
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
...Not converted
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley, statesman and writer (1838-1923)
...patient observation
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason.
- Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (1642-1727)
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