Quotes 8601 till 8620 of 8624.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds - not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but - a hatred of all injury.
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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
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True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy cause.
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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