Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
- Topic: Conflict, Diversity
- Location: Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
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Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.
Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
