“The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.” MenArtistStruggleFieldsBattleEssentialsOrdinaryOrdinary Man Author:Andre Malraux
“Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.” MayHas BeensMightChristianFormReligiousViewsPerspectiveBattleEssentialsFinalsExcitedDeterminedBotherOperationsHostilityZealInconsistencyResidualMoppingMopping Up Author:Richard John Neuhaus
“We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.” WinningBattleEssentialsCriticismIslamCriticizeIdeological Author:Ibn Warraq
“Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.” PlansBattleEssentialsUselessPreparing Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people.” PeopleThinkingPersonsStillsFallEvilMoralPrinciplesBattleEssentialsRedCollapseTrapsBeatenBullsPatheticFanaticsFanaticismCloaks Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.” ChildrenBookMatterFactsLife IsLeftGivenBornBehindsBattleEssentialsMarriedDiedDetailsBridgesLeft BehindInexplicable Author:Paul Auster
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.” MenWorldChangeQualityMoralCourageSocietyWillingBattleEssentialsBraveryBraveIntelligenceChanging The WorldYieldPeersCommodityColleaguesWrathVitalityEulogyCensureMoral CourageDisapprovalCourage To Change Author:Robert Kennedy