Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in me and the constant Eat the bread or drink the wine That tempt my weaker self. Let me rather starve, And let my heart parch with thirst, And let me die and perish, Ere I stretch my hand To a cup you did not fill, Or a bowl you did not bless.
Kahlil Gibran
Song is the heroics of speech.
Thomas Carlyle
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
Neil Gaiman
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
Ambrose Bierce
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you may do by inveighing against the laws and lawgivers, and yet at the same time observing these laws with the weak, lest they be offended, until they shall themselves recognize the tyranny, and understand their own liberty.
Martin Luther King Jr.
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
Jodi Picoult
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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