Selected from the collection of quotes



"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." - Walter Anderson

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance." - Thomas H. Huxley

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." - David Friedman

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of." - Jim Rohn

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." - Marthin Luther King Jr.

"To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all." - Elie Wiesel

"To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto your children and they unto theirs. From generation to generation the hordes swept in, ran wild and savage and there was no deliverance, valiance, and revolt. How the mighty are fallen, the great in spirit and stout of heart, walking to their death with a halo of eternity." - Yehuda L. Bialer

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Marthin Luther King Jr.

"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another." - Winston Churchill

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something." - Carl Sandburg

"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes." - Bertolt Brecht

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price." - Rabindranath Tagore

"Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price." - Elie Wiesel

"History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history." - Clarence Darrow

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." - Ernest Hemingway

"People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity." - Nikola Tesla

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Marthin Luther King Jr.

"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other." - Sojourner Truth

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.



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