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- Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in…
- When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.
- Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell…
- Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is…
- What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our…
- It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what…
- We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is…
- I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow…
- So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire.…
- We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when…
- First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works…
- True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some…
- People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step…
- We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
- An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of…
- What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our…
- We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle