Which Quotes

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.