“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.” GivingWellsStatesHelpingFightingEvilLinesWealthInfluenceDutyBattleLimitsDrawsTemptationWell BeingGood And EvilSpheresDistributionPromotingCompetentIndirectDistribution Of WealthBattle Of Life Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays) Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day.” GivingHumansHappensPainPastFacesFoundWinningDifferencesHuman BeingsVictoryBattleLimitsLosingNegativeLuckInstinctDefeatAthleteOpponentsWinning And LosingYou Can Win Author:Jesse Owens
“The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion.” CareFormPresidentKnownBirthBattleLimitsClintonMeaningfulAbortionAccusationTenaciousPresident ClintonInfanticide Author:George Will
“So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize. She writes an article which becomes an article she writes in different ways over and over and over again: Women need to organize. They need to create their own bosses. They need to have support networks and gangs so that they are a force.” MenWayNeedsWritingDifferentForceSupportHe ManBattleLimitsDifferent WaysBossArticlesOrganizeGangEleanorContemptuous Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.” HumansReasonMomentsCertainReligionFailingBattleLimitsShiningIntellectHorizonCrucialRescueMetaphysicsBeatenHuman ReasonCrucial MomentsBattle Of Life Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle against the Inquisition, a battle against religious censorship. And the victory of the Enlightenment in Europe was seen as pushing religion away from the center of power. In America, at the same time, the Enlightenment meant coming to a country where people were not going to persecute you by reason of your religion. So it meant a liberation into religion. In Europe, it was liberation out of religion.” PeopleCountryReasonAmericaDesireChurchReligiousHistoryCenturyVictoryBattleLimitsIntellectualEnlightenmentEuropeLiberationPushingCensorshipInquisition18th CenturyIntellectual Freedom Author:Salman Rushdie