The World Motivation
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Have a very good reason for everything you do.