The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
- Topic: Conflict, Leadership
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There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you.
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
...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.
