“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 246 of 1106
“Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.”
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
“Violence multiplies violence.”
“We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.”
“And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.”
“Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.”
“Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.”
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
“I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all”
“We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.”
“The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.”
“The will must be stronger than the skill.”
“There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.”
“Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts so that the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 'no one shall be held in slavery or servitude' - ring true.”
“I'm not funny. What I am is brave.”
“There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.”
“Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods”
“It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.”
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.”