Baker Brownell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

  • A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.

  • Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  • We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

  • You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

  • Lying is done with words and also with silence.

  • No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

  • I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.

  • The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

  • The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.