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- Since when was genius found respectable?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
- What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
- Sri Madhava
- The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
- John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
- We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
- Vernon Howard
- The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
- Krishnamurti
- We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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