This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Jules Renard, aka Pierre-Jules Renard
It is not enough to be happy: It is also necessary that others not be.
The oppressor must have the cooperation of the oppressed, of those he must feel better than. The oppressed and the damned are placed in an inferior position by force of arms, physical strength, and later, by threats of such force. But the long-time maintenance of power over others is secured by psychological manipulation and seduction.
Better | Cooperation | Force | Position | Power | Strength | Time |
Since everything that comes into the human minds enters through the gates of sense, man’s first reason is a reason of sense-experience. It is this that serves as a foundation for the reason of the intelligence; our first teachers in natural philosophy are our feet, hands, and eyes. To substitute books for them does not teach us to reason, it teaches us to use the reason of others rather than our own; it teaches us to believe much and know little.
Books | Experience | Intelligence | Little | Man | Philosophy | Reason | Sense | Teach |
Dean Rusk, fully David Dean Rusk
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears – by listening to them.
Hatred is entrenched in human nature. It is as old as man, as old as man’s desire to expunge it. It slumbers in all of us. It can awaken at any time. I am not sure if we can eradicate hate from our hearts, but of this I am certain: It must always be our goal.
A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent.
In God’s Kingdom the corrupting principles of domination and subjugation will be overcome. People will no longer model social or religious relationships; or even relationships to God after the sort of power that reduces others to servility. Rather they will discover a new kind of power, a power exercised through service, which empowers the disinherited and brings all to a new relationship of mutual enhancement.
God | Model | People | Power | Principles | Relationship | Service | Will | God |
Jules Renard, aka Pierre-Jules Renard
When the defects of others are perceived with too much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
Defects |
We hunger for a kind of group association in which, through being ourselves, we may get to something greater than ourselves. We long to touch the transcendent, and, furthermore, to do it in the company of others who, by sharing our experiences, verify and confirm them.
Association | Hunger | Association |
John Robinson, fully John Arthur Thomas Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich
Prayer is the responsibility to meet others with all I have, to be ready to encounter the unconditional in the conditional, to expect to meet God in the way, not to turn aside from the way.
God | Prayer | Responsibility | God |
E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher
“Good” is what helps me and others along on this journey of liberation.
Seneca the Younger, aka Seneca or Lucius Annaeus Seneca NULL
What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, fully Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
Live simply that others might simply live.