Great Throughts Treasury

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Alan Cohen

The path of purposeful action bears a double blessing for those who walk it: in the blessing of the world is your own. Right action is the key to the re-establishment of God consciousness within your world... Let your deeds speak your message to the world. Your actions have the power to heal. This is a responsibility of great and wonderful magnitude. It is your responsibility, and it is the easiest one, for when you choose the responsibility to heal the world, you instantly allow God to heal the world through you.

Action | Consciousness | Deeds | God | Power | Responsibility | Right | World | Deeds | God |

Alan Epstein

I am not a victim of circumstances. I do not choose to abdicate my responsibility for my own pleasure. It is my responsibility, and my happiness resides in that awareness and in the actions that result from that awareness... You maximize your potential for happiness if you decide right now to accept responsibility for your life.

Awareness | Circumstances | Life | Life | Pleasure | Responsibility | Right | Awareness | Happiness | Victim |

Alexander Hamilton

It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the public good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always reason right about the means of promoting it. They known from experience that they sometimes err; and the wonder is that they so seldom err as they do, beset, as they continually are, by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of men who possess their confidence more then they deserve it, and of those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it.

Confidence | Despise | Experience | Good | Means | Men | Observation | People | Public | Reason | Right | Sense | Wonder |

Alexander Hamilton

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against he usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state.

Better | Defense | Government | Individual | People | Right | Self | Success |

Alvin Toffler

The responsibility for change… lies with us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical. This means fighting off the idea-assassins who rush forward to kill any new suggestion on grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, not matter how absurd, oppressive, or unworkable it may be. It means fighting for freedom of expression – the right of people to voice their ideas, even if heretical.

Absurd | Change | Fighting | Freedom | Ideas | Kill | Means | People | Responsibility | Right |

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, fully Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart.

Evil | Good | Heart | Right |

Aristotle NULL

The brave man is the man who faces or fears the right thing for the right purpose in the right manner at the right moment.

Man | Purpose | Purpose | Right |

Aristotle NULL

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Power | Purpose | Purpose | Right | Time |