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- The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
- Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them…
- I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and…
- In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it,…
- With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary…
- To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a…
- Which of us can control his feelings?
- My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything.
- ... it is a major responsibility ... of all communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.
- We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.
- We particularly like people who value us highly.
- Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!
- ... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.
- Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
- It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of…
- It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course…
- For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
- Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
- If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate…
- Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do…
- Our envy of others devours us most of all.
- Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly -…
- Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the…
- Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights…
- We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong