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- A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- A theory must be tempered with reality.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- Conscience is the chamber of justice.
- Origen
- All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
- Lloyd George
- We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), March 27, 1964
- The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
- Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
- There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
- Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
- As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975), On Revolution (1963)
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