"What is national freedom if not a peopleâ€™s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?"

-- Ahad Ha'am

#People Quotes #Path Quotes #Ability Quotes

“There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.”
“And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.”

Source : "Louis Farrakhan Discusses His Role in the Murder of Malcolm X". www.cnn.com. May 14, 2000.
“As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.”
“It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.”
“I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.”
“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”
“I came to the conclusion, that if my advice wouldn't be taken by those who needed it most and was stolen by those who could well afford to pay for it, that I would hereafter give advice only to myself and always sell it to others.”
“Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (2006). “Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle And Dependent Class of Society?”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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