Paul Harris Quotes

32 quotes in 395 categories

• Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
• It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge…
• In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
• In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and…
• But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
• Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.
• There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own…
• It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers…
• If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
• Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned,…
• While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty…
• If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
• Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
• The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of…
• Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
• Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including…
• Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
• In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
• To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
• The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his…

Browse Paul Harris Quotes by Category