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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

 

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Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

 

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Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

 

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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

 

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

 

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

 

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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

 

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

 

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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

 

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"Do-so" is more important than "say-so."

 

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

 

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Skill to do comes of doing.

 

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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

 

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

 

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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

 

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

 

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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

 

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his

 

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

 

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Thought is the blossom; language