Abel Hermant famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
-- Abel Hermant

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I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.
-- Abel Hermant

#Truth #Honesty #Men
Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.
-- Abel Hermant

#Lying #Said #Wells
Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
-- Abel Hermant

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There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.
We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.
All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

Abel Hermant famous quotes

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