“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 17 of 1106
“We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.”
“It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
“The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”
“We are never assured of justice without a fight.”
“Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.”
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
“I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]”
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
“For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.”
“That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.”
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
“When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.”
“Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.”
“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
“Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, . . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport . . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.”
“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
“Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.”
“[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.”
“My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.”