Mental Attitude famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.

  • The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

  • It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

  • Revolt is the right of the people

  • I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

  • The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

  • You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

  • Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability—I won’t say permanence, but durability—things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children.

  • The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

  • When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.