Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
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