“In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!”
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Courageous Quotes — page 178 of 1106
“It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.”
“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
“No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.”
“Stumbling isn't falling.”
“Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.”
“Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.”
“I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.”
“You can only lose what you cling to.”
“Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.”
“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
“Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.”
“In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.”
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”
“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.”
“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”
“The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world.”
“He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger”
“I got these haters like, When he gon' stop? Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks.”
“Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.”