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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. - Author object (533)

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. - Author object (533)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Author object (162)

Only in the darkness can you see the stars. - Author object (162)

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. - Author object (162)

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. - Author object (162)

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. - Author object (162)

There comes a time when silence is betrayal. - Author object (162)

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Author object (162)

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. - Author object (162)

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. - Author object (162)

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. - Author object (162)

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. - Author object (162)

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. - Author object (162)

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. - Author object (162)

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Author object (162)

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. - Author object (162)

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. - Author object (162)

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. - Author object (162)

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. - Author object (162)