Barrows Dunham famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.
-- Barrows Dunham -
When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.
-- Barrows Dunham
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
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There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance Âand aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.
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When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.
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But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.
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...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.
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The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
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When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.
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