"Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?"

-- William Morley Punshon

#Safe Quotes #Cowardice Quotes #Expediency Quotes

“Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.”

Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.275, Applewood Books
“In naked beauty most adorned.”
“Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.”
“The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public â€“ how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not â€œone of usâ€? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.”
“When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.”
“Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.”
“To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.”
“Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.”

Source : "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2005.

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