Here’s another good one:
No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well. —Margaret Thatcher
CS Lewis - “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
This defines SJW today, though they enjoy it as much because it is a socially approved form of bullying as for the moral status it seems to grant today.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. - Oscar Wilde.
The reply to “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.:
Inconsistency has been overpraised by those who do not expect to suffer from it. - Mason Cooley
“per Ardua Ad Alta”: I think that is correct. It is my high school class of 65 motto.
“Duty Is The Most Sublime Word In The English Language”: Robert E. Lee.
Evil Triumphs When Good Men Do Nothing .... Edmund Burke
“Pride grows on a human heart like lard on a pig.”
A.I.Solzhenitsyn
“...though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate.” - Douglas Adams
(This has been very helpful in public speaking and other presentations regarding the common “but what if I make a mistake?” fear: if I’m wrong in front of an audience, I shall strive to be _definitively_ wrong. Quite the confidence builder!)
“Strange how much human progress and accomplishment comes from contemplation of the irrelevant.” - Scott Kim
(Great rebuttal for the rhetorical question “well what’s _that_ good for?”.)
“If you have to tell me who or what or how good you are, you probably ain’t.”
Me
Somebody’s doing the raping. Donald Trump
“There Is No Substitute For Victory”: Douglas MacArthur.
Raymond Chandler
down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
It’s faster horses
Older whiskey
Younger women
And more money -— Tom T. Hall
It always gets darkest.......... just before the lights go totally out. umgud
The profound is only so to those that it is. umgud
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
Winston Churchill
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.