Enough II

"One does evil enough when one does nothing good."
--German Proverb

Venture

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
--Arthur C. Clarke

Abolish II

"At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years. Neither the wisest of leaders, nor the noblest of kings, nor yet the Church--none of them has been able to stop it. And don't succumb to the facile belief that wars will be stopped by hotheaded socialists. Or that rational and just wars can be sorted out from the rest. There will always be thousands of thousands to whom even such a war will be senseless and unjustified. Quite simply, no state can live without war, that is one of the state's essential functions. ... War is the price we pay for living in a state. Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states. But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings. The state was created to protect us from evil. In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand foci of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable. The state is called upon to check these impulses--but it generates others of its own, still more powerful, and this time one-directional. At times it throws them all in a single direction--and that is war."
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
"Father Severyan", in "November 1916: The Red Wheel, Knot II" (1984; translation 1999).

Emulate

"Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison."
--Don Imus,
July 23, 1940 - December 27, 2019

Undervaluation

"Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men."
--Margaret Mead,
"Male and Female" (1949),
2nd edition 1955

Neutrality IV

"I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality."
--Joss Sheldon,
"The Little Voice"

Indivisibility

"Indeed, across the gulfs and barriers that now divide us, we must remember that there are no permanent enemies. Hostility today is a fact, but it is not a ruling law. The supreme reality of our time is our indivisibility as children of God and our common vulnerability on this planet."
--John F. Kennedy,
Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland (June 28, 1963)

Through

"I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth."
--Deepak Chopra,
"The Return of Merlin"

Statement

"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies."
--Ram Dass,
April 6, 1931 - December 22, 2019

Magnify

"Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
--Aldous Huxley,
"Jesting Pilate"

Not

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
--Oscar Wilde,
"The Portrait of Mr. W. H." (1889)

Gainers

"Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest."
--John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
Source: "On Liberty" (1859)

Stations

O let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations.

--Charles Dickens,
"The Chimes" (1844)

Survival III

"[T]he Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, including those who went on what they thought were suicide missions, had a higher rate of survival than those who went along. Never forget that."
--Derrick Jensen,
"Endgame, Volume 1"

Coerce

"A man’s liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited."
--Herbert Spencer
(1820-1903) British author, economist, philosopher
Source: "The Principles of Ethics" Bd. II, ed.

Subjective

"There’s no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can’t--and shouldn’t--force yourself to want something ‘normal’ and stop wanting what you truly want. It’s a sure way to make your life miserable."
--Alessandra Hazard,
"Straight Boy"

Going IV

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."
--Harriet Tubman

Artist VI

"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."
--Louis Nizer,
"Between You And Me" (1948).

Born IV

"Where were you born?"
"On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered.
"No, no. In what state were you born?"
"In a state of innocence."

--Joseph Heller,
"Catch-22"

Advantages II

Kirk: One of the advantages of being a captain, Doctor, is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

--Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1,
Episode: "Dagger Of The Mind"

Imitator

"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson,
The Divinity College Address (1838)

Weapons

"Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged."
-- William O. Douglas,
 "An Almanac of Liberty" (1954)

Judgment II

"One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding."
--Tim Kreider,
"We Learn Nothing"

Questions IV

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
--James Thurber

Devour

"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."
--Franz Kafka

Equal IV

"All men have equal rights, but not to equal things."
--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker

Offended II

"The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else's speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don't run to court -- or to the principal -- when they encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their own."
--Jeff Jacoby (1959-)
American journalist, syndicated newspaper columnist

Closing

"When the run is over, there will be a closing ceremony and the runners will return to the many distant lands from which they came."
--Dennis Banks

Wiped II

"No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out."
--B.F. Skinner,
"Walden Two"

Circumstance

"When Napoleon said, 'Circumstance? I make circumstance,' he expressed very nearly the spirit of the public relations counsel's work."
--Edward Bernays,
"Crystallizing Public Opinion" (1923)

Leashes

"Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes."
--Jon Rappoport