Barrows Dunham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

  • There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

  • When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

  • But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

  • ...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.

  • 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.

  • The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

  • 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.

  • I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  • Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.