Gentility Quote by Zicheng Hong

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

— Richard G. Scott

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

— Amartya Sen

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

— John Adams

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't…

— Elizabeth Bibesco

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But…

— Edmund Burke

“The message of decolonization issuing from many writers in the field is that the process of decolonizing can be extremely ‘messy’, often leading to…

— Zed Books

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you…

— Chaim Potok

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it,…

— Raoul Vaneigem

“When you’re violent you undermine everything.”

— Chris Hedges

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due…

— Marcus Aurelius

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

— Nigel Gibson

“Violence is central in our lives, a constant and unavoidable reality. Experience is not a linear construct moving from one point to another -…

— Toi Derricotte