Bulcha

“The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.”
― Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“The Astronomer

AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: "Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, Why Don't We Learn from History?