This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
Action | Failure | Forbearance | Will | Failure |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.
As we shall see, a strategy of leadership to accomplish adaptive work accounts for several conditions and values that are consonant with the demands of a democratic society. In addition to reality testing, these include respecting conflict, negotiation, and a diversity of views within a community; increasing community cohesion; developing norms of responsibility-taking, learning, and innovation; and keeping social distress within a bearable range.
Challenge | Distress | Organization | People | Reality |
In fact, many people daily go beyond both their job description and the informal expectations they carry within their organization and do what they are not authorized to do. At a minimum, these people exercise leadership momentarily by impressing upon a group, sometimes by powerfully articulating an idea that strikes a resonant chord, the need to pay attention to a missing point of view. A staff assistant will speak up at a meeting even though she has no authority to do so.
The absence of authority enables one to deviate from the norms of authoritative decision-making.
Challenge | Conversation | Creativity | Ideas | People |
Rosa Luxemburg, aka Rosalia Luxemburg, "Bloody Rosa"
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.
Obedience | Revolution | Rule | Understanding |
Rosa Luxemburg, aka Rosalia Luxemburg, "Bloody Rosa"
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
People | Plan | Struggle | Understanding | Weapons | Learn |
Rosa Luxemburg, aka Rosalia Luxemburg, "Bloody Rosa"
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
Revolution | Will |
Rosa Luxemburg, aka Rosalia Luxemburg, "Bloody Rosa"
The times when the centre of gravity of political development and the crystallising agent of capitalist contradictions lay on the European continent, are long gone by. To-day Europe is only a link in the tangled chain of international connections and contradictions.
Appearance | Awareness | Destiny | Ideas | Meaning | Omnipotence | Peace | Politics | Proletariat | Revolution | Time | War | World | Awareness |
Thus, authoritative action will tend to reduce stress, while inaction will increase it. This may be true regardless of the content of the action.
Change | Learning | People | Reality | Study | Usefulness | Work | Leadership | Learn |
Rosa Luxemburg, aka Rosalia Luxemburg, "Bloody Rosa"
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
Future | Pride | Revolution | Strength | Tomorrow | Will | Leadership |
Rosa Luxemburg, aka Rosalia Luxemburg, "Bloody Rosa"
The modern proletarian class doesn’t carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers’ struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight… That’s exactly what is laudable about it, that’s exactly why this colossal piece of culture, within the modern workers’ movement, is epoch-defining: that the great masses of the working people first forge from their own consciousness, from their own belief, and even from their own understanding the weapons of their own liberation.
Revolution | Will |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses. Don't wait any longer...
I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed. I have always encouraged my restaurant Operators and team members to give back to the local community. We should be about more than just selling chicken; we should be a part of our customer’s lives and the communities in which we serve.
Difficulty | Inferiority | Words | Work |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Bitterness | Danger | Extreme | Government | Important | People | Public | Reform | System | Temptation | Will | Government | Danger | Temptation |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
We behold, then, by the sight of the mind, in that eternal truth from which all things temporal are made, the form according to which we are, and according to which we do anything true and right reason, either in ourselves, or in things corporeal.
Saint Gregory, aka Pope Gregory I, St. Gregory the Dialogist, "Gregory the Great" NULL
Every day you provide your bodies with good food to keep them from failing. In the same way, your good works should be the daily nourishment of your hearts. Your bodies are fed with food and your spirits with good works. You aren't to deny your soul, which is going to live forever, what you grant to your body, which is going to die.