A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
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No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
You don't have to be big or well known to be great.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.
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 higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.