This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.
Achievement | Devotion | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |
All progress is made by men of faith who believe in what is right and, what is more important, actually do what is right in their own private affairs. You cannot add to the peace and goodwill of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.
Faith | Harmony | Important | Love | Men | Peace | Progress | Right | Wisdom | Work | World |
In war it serves that we may poison and mutilate each other. In peace it has made our lives hurried and uncertain. Instead of freeing us in great measure from spiritually exhausting labor, it has made men into slaves of machinery, who for the most part complete their monotonous long days' work with disgust and must continually tremble for their poor rations.
Frederic Eggleston, fully Sir Frederic William Eggleston
The great task of peace is to work morals into it. The only sort of peace that will be real is one in which everybody takes his share or responsibility. World organizations and conferences will be of no value unless there is improvement in the relation of men to men.
Improvement | Men | Peace | Responsibility | Will | Wisdom | Work | World | Value |
The very core of peace and love is imagination. All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Altruism | Imagination | Love | Peace | Wisdom |
François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
How different the peace of god from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.
Absolute | Conscience | God | Peace | Purity | Resignation | Righteousness | Soul | Will | Wisdom | World | God |
Government... is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
Art | Business | Government | Men | Peace | Science | Technology | Wisdom | Art |
Aristotle said that all creative people are dissatisfied because they are looking for happiness in perfection and seeking for things that do not exist. This is one of the hopes of the world. There is no progress where people are satisfied. Discontent is perhaps the most potent challenge to improvement.
Challenge | Discontent | Improvement | People | Perfection | Progress | Wisdom | World | Happiness |
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of ascent, was adjustable on principles of the common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.
Authority | Capacity | Civilization | Culture | Government | Man | Mankind | Morality | People | Principles | Progress | Reason | Redemption | Security | Society | Title | Wisdom |
Joseph Farrell, fully Joseph Patrick Farrell
Take it for granted that the greater your achievement the more genuine will be the surprise of your friends and neighbors.
Achievement | Will | Wisdom | Friends |