With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Topic: Conflict
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
