"Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience."

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Source : Dietrich von Hildebrand, John Henry Crosby (2014). “My Battle Against Hitler: Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich”, p.12, Image

Dietrich von Hildebrand

#Compromise Quotes #Beggar Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.”
“What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets”
“It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.”
“An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents...”

Source : Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf
“You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.”
“Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.”
“Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.”
“[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they weren't all powerful, that history could always be wrong about man. Today, this is how we are starting to think.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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