Great Throughts Treasury

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Václav Havel

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Authority | Existence | Man | Public | Rights | Science |

Václav Havel

I cannot make decisions about things it is not proper for him to decide. He is merely putting in a good word for genuine peace, and for achieving it quickly.

Character | Nations | Rights |

Václav Havel

The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.

Association | Civilization | Conduct | Culture | Events | Fate | Global | History | Human race | Humanity | Race | Reason | Rights | Unique | War | World | Fate | Association |

Václav Havel

The kind of hope that I often think about… I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul. It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Faith | Language | Relationship | Rights | World | Think |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

Women and young people develop their separate estimates of their tastes.

Appearance | Blame | Justice | Law | Order | Rights | Rule | Universe |

Tryon Edwards

Give work rather than alms to the poor. The former drives out indolence, the latter industry.

Beginning | History | Rights |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Authority | Nations | Peace | Right | Rights | World |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Compensation | Desire | Ends | Faith | Freedom | Nations | Peace | Rights | Safe | World |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum.

Authority | Civilization | Nations | Peace | People | Right | Rights | World |

Thurgood Marshall

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Individual | Plan | Rights | Sacrifice | Wrong |

Thurgood Marshall

Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through. We cannot sugarcoat the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion is the energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what we really want to create. We should be honest and do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves and everyone around is to examine the reasons of our true intent.

Challenge | Mother | Rights | Worth | Child |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

The now legendary Fonda photo shows her with diminutive Vietnamese women examining an antiaircraft weapon, implying in the rightist imagination that she relished the thought of killing those American pilots innocently flying overhead.

History | Rights |

Cynthia Kenyon

One grad student can do things in an hour that evolution could not do in a billion years.

Rights | System |

William Godwin

The true standard of the conduct of one man towards another is justice.

Forbearance | Man | Right | Rights |

William James

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

Dread | Rights | Universe |

William Shakespeare

O my lord, Press not a falling man too far! 'Tis virtue His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

Business | Good | Lord | Men | Offense | Rights | Spirit | Woman | Business |

Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

Our Creator never wasted his or her time creating a second-class person. He made us all first class and he provided this earth as our home for all of us, not for the black man, the white man, the red man, the yellow man, the brown man, but for the whole human family.

Rights |

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Nobody is going to buy into the next million [employees] without having some sense what happened to the first million... This is too big for me to put my faith in.

People | Rights | Think |

Eli Pariser

Michael Brown taught us that vital national positions must be filled with qualified candidates, not political friends with little experience.

Justice | Rights |

Elias Canetti

When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.

Experience | Justice | Knowledge | Language | Literature | Man | Men | Past | People | Rights | Story | Time | Words | Worth | Child |