“The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 254 of 1106
“The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.”
“When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.”
“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”
“Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.”
“I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.”
“When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.”
“You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.”
“To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
“If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.”
“Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.”
“A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.”
“Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.”
“That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.”
“When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.”
“It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.”
“Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.”
“There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.”
“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
“Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.”