We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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.
People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
A fair character is a fair fortune.
Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.
To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
False leaders rarely engage succession planning for fear of no longer being seen as the leader.
