Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
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No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.
But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.