"We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous."

-- Aristotle

#Courageous Quotes

“In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.”
“If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.”

Source : Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
“I would not send my child to a vacation Bible school in 99.9% of the Baptist churches in America. Have some teacher that doesn't even understand anything about the gospel of Jesus Christ, ask those little children, 'How many of you want to go to Heaven?' and damn most of them! Harden their heart to the gospel with some silly profession of faith because it was a silly proclamation of the gospel! It brought no genuine repentance, it brought no faith; it's no different than the Roman church that baptizes every infant that is born.”
“Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world”

Source : Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.58, Penguin
“There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society.”
“Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.”
“Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.”

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