Healing
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Source: Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words
1930s, Second inaugural address (1937)
“Man … feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.”
“Ultimate Terms in Contemporary Rhetoric,” p. 93.
Language is Sermonic (1970)
An Interview with Jean-Michel Cousteau https://kerdowney.com/2017/05/jean-michel-cousteau-part-two/ (May 17, 2017)
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
An Uneasy Honeymoon, Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952783-2,00.html (Sep. 29, 1980)
Said Evren in defense of the decision to take power after the 1980 military coup.
1850s, West India Emancipation (1857)
Context: Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. [... ] Men might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others.
“I want to be remembered as a person who, or as an artist who provided comfort for people.”
Interview with Universal Music Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI68Ue0sPfo (October 2018)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
As quoted in Lin Yutang's With Love and Irony (1945), 'In Defence of Gold Diggers', p. 221
