This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Men and women are biological facts. Ladies and gentleman - citizens - are social artifacts, works of political art. They carry the culture that is sustained by wise laws, and traditions of civility. A the end of the day we are right to judge a society by the character of the people it produces. That is why statecraft is, inevitably, soulcraft.
Art | Character | Civility | Culture | Day | Men | People | Right | Society | Wisdom | Wise | Society |
Abū al-Hasan Alī ibn Ismā'īl al-Ash'arī
Nothing can be evil on the part of God. For a thing is evil on our part only because we transgress the limit and bound set for us and do what we have no right to do. But the creator is subject to no one and bound by no command.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends – the right of the laborer to this hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the right of the millionaire to his millions.
Civilization | Property | Right |
Lives can be changed if you say the right thing at the right time at the right place with the right spirit… Words of encouragement, spoken or written, have a dramatic effect on a person…Well-intended words, even though they are correct, can damage relationships if they are not perceived as being offered with good will.
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Efficiency is concerned with doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.
Efficiency | Right |
Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.
Revolution | Right |
William O. Douglas, fully Judge William Orville Douglas
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
Now whether the difficulty is real or whether it is imaginary, the results are the same, you become whatever you think. If God is with you, how can you possibly feel inferior to anyone? You have equal access to all the good that comes from God. You can demonstrate your faith in His ability to give it to you by living His life. So change your thought patterns right now. Make up your mind to beat this feeling by faith in God, and you will. He can who thinks he can!
Ability | Change | Difficulty | Faith | God | Good | Life | Life | Mind | Right | Thought | Will | God | Thought |
Religion is not mere conformity to moral law, it is an espousal of moral ideals, a dedication of the heart, a loyal devotion, the perpetual renewal of a right spirit within us.
Conformity | Dedication | Devotion | Heart | Ideals | Law | Moral law | Religion | Right | Spirit |
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right: there can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.