Source: Principle-Centered Leadership (1992), Ch. 11
C. Rajagopalachari (1878–1972) Political leader
Rajagopalachari (12 February 1949), quoted in [Rajmohan Gandhi, Rajaji: A Life, http://books.google.com/books?id=JjPHeRd7_UYC&pg=PA475, 1997, Penguin Books India, 978-0-14-026967-3, 286]
Spoken by C.R when Mahatma Gandhi (Bapu) was assassinated.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Third State of the Union Address (7 December 1903)
1900s
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 6 : Higher Life
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: An ideal is a port toward which we resolve to steer. We may not reach it. The mere fact that our goal is definitely located does not suffice to conduct us thither. But surely we shall thus stand a better chance of making port in the end than if we drift about aimlessly, the sport of winds and tides, without having decided in our own minds in what direction we ought to bend our course.
The moral law is the expression of our inmost nature, and when we live in consonance with it we feel that we are living out our true being.
“Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat… between the law of love and the law of hate.”
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Letter (1881), as quoted in The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions : Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context (1993) by Irving Louis Horowit, p. 11
“Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Kuziomin, in the Ralph Parker translation (1963).
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Context: Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D’you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men’s left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.
“Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)
Mark Hopkins (educator) (1802–1887) American educationalist and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 393.
