“Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 101 of 1106
“Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”
“Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.”
“...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.”
“But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.”
“The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.”
“Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.”
“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”
“Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.”
“In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.”
“War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.”
“Words without deeds are worthless.”
“If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.”
“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.”
“If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.”
“The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.”
“The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.”
“Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.”
“The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.”
“Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.”