“How shall Integrity face Oppression?”
The Ordeal of Mansart (1957) [Kraus-Thomson, 1976, ], p. 275
Context: How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.
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“If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”
Page 107 of the 2005 reprint.
The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
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