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My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That’s why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
“We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear,”
Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
“I like to think I’m helping them by hating them,” she says. “I’m reminding them that they aren’t God’s gift to humankind.”
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others,”
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
‘We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.’”
I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
That is death—shifting from “is” to “was.”
“but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.”
Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.”
