“We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.” IfsBelieveFactsProblemFacesFightingEvilVirtueBalanceOptimismDeedsSolveFoolishGravesSurrenderPessimismThreateningIgnoble Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.” MenWorldBelieveHumansDoeStatesHandsEarthBeliefReligiousAttitudeMankindAuthorityHuman LifeSoilHopelessPessimismOrthodoxyUnitingAbsolutismFuture Of Mankind Author:Nikolai Berdyaev