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“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.”
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“The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.”
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“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.”
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“Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.”
― The Tale of the Unknown Island
― The Tale of the Unknown Island
“We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is a matter of sense and sensibility. Nevertheless, if we really love others it will not be too hard to like them also.
If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond.”
― No Man Is an Island
If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond.”
― No Man Is an Island
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