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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.
The prices are ridiculous ... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict
alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.
After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.
Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.
Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.
Inventive man has invented nothing
nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
If you think there's a bogeyman -
turn on the light.
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
