"Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city."

-- Alcaeus

#Wall Quotes #Cities Quotes #Brave Quotes

“In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. If the culture you have is radically different from an experiment and take-risk culture, then you have a big change you going to have to makeâ€”and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.”
“Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.”
“I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.' 'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose Rapture.”
“Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped. In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless inquiry. It builds up in a citizen a wealth of self-respect.”
“Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.”
“Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.”
“Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.”
“In any matter where we have questions, we have a right to ask the Holy Spirit to lead us and to expect His gentle guiding.”

Source : Curtis Hutson (2000). “Bread for Believers”, p.282, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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