Random Quotes
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.Aristotle, In Stobaeus, Florilegium
The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.Michael Howard, The Observer (1980)
Courage mounteth with occasion.William Shakespeare, King John, II.i
Cowardly dogs bark loudest.John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.William Congreve, Love for Love (1695)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.Emma Goldman, Anarchism (1910)
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)