“For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 185 of 1106
“Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.”
“Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it – even though others may hesitate or differ.”
“Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.”
“The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.”
“When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.”
“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.”
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
“Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you”
“Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.”
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”
“At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
“Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.”
“When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.”
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
“Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.”
“A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.”
“Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.”
“There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.”
“There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.”