This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Golda Meir, originally named Goldie Mabovitch, later Goldie Myerson
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
George McGovern, fully George Stanley McGovern
The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.
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You must remember that some things that are legally right are not morally right.
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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Duty | Faith | Right | Understand |
The best of all alms is that which the right hand giveth and the left hand knoweth not of.
Thomas Lickona, fully Thomas Edward Lickona
Character so conceived has three interrelated parts: moral knowing, moral feeling, and moral behavior. Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good – habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action. When we think about the kind of character we want for our children, it’s clear that we want them to be able to judge what is right, care deeply about what is right, and then do what they believe to be right – even in the face of pressure from without and temptation from within.
Action | Behavior | Care | Character | Children | Good | Heart | Knowing | Mind | Right | Temptation | Temptation | Think |
Randy Pausch, fully Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch
Whatever news we get about the scans, I’m not going to die when we hear it. I won’t die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I am enjoying it… That’s the way the rest of my life would need to be lived.
Jayaprakash Narayan, known as JP Narayan, Jayaprakash or Loknayak
A violent revolution has always brought forth a dictatorship of some kind or another… After revolution, a new privileged class of rulers and exploiters grows up in the course of time to which the people at large is once again subject.
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Storytelling can be a powerful agent of personal transformation. The right stories can open our hearts and change who we are.
Naladiyar, or The Naladiyar NULL
The essence of right conduct is not to injure anyone; one should know only this, that non-injury is religion.
It is easy to substitute our will for that of a child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.
Henri Nouwen, fully Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
Being a Christian in American doesn’t require a great cost. You can be Christian and fully participate in the secular culture. I have a sense that, more and more, being a Christian in this country will require a choice. The Christian will have to be willing to make big sacrifices… Right now, in this culture, you can have your cake and eat it too. But that is an illusion. You cannot be a fat sprinter. If you want to spring to the Kingdom, you had better be lean.
Better | Choice | Cost | Culture | Illusion | Right | Sense | Will |
Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
Human morality is composed of four interconnecting principles: a genetic predisposition toward survival, the neural development of the brain, a social imperative toward group cohesion, and a cognitive propensity to make distinctions between right and wrong and good and evil. Our moral continuum appears to be strongly influenced by the degrees of connectedness we feel with others; the more connected we feel, the more we act with generosity, compassion and fairness.
Compassion | Evil | Fairness | Generosity | Good | Morality | Principles | Right | Survival | Wrong |