Amitai Etzioni famous quotes

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  • Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

  • What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.

  • Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

  • Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

  • Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

  • Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.

  • Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

  • Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

  • There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

  • Civility is not simply about manners.