Author: The Goof (Page 37 of 43)

1. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven & earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

2. Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical & immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

3. There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it;
who feel that they have nothing to lose. People, who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

4. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

5. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

6. 10 thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while 1 wise man forgets himself into immortality.

7. All progress is precarious, and the solution of 1 problem brings us face to face with another problem.

8. The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents & discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

9. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles & misguided men.

10. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort & convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
–illiam Jennings Bryan (1860 – 1925)

“The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.”
–arcus Aurelius

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
–Hannah More

“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.”
–Henry David Thoreau

“vera incessu patuit dea”
(her very walk revealed the goddess)
–Virgil

“Be who you are and say what you feel because the people who mind don’t matter and the people who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” –Russian dictator Joseph Stalin

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fevered pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. –
Julius Caesar