Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

For we that live please must please to live.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Freedom ultimately means the right of the other people to do things you don’t approve of.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

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.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

You find out the necessity of Liberty as you find out the necessity of air—by not having enough of it.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.