There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
- Topic: Communication, Speech
- Location: Valley of Fire State Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
