No human creature can give orders to love.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.
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Change how you see and see how you change.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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.
