“There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their end than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”
John Stuart Mill Inaugural Address at St Andrew's (1867)
“Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.”
"Nicht dass du mich belogst, sondern dass ich dir nicht mehr glaube, hat mich erschüttert."
Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil; Aphorism 183.
"When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
Old US Navy slogan.
"When the call to action comes, may you find your own right path."
