Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
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There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
...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.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
