“I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.” IfsMenGivingIdeasFactsFightingNamesWorkPiecesExampleHeroCreaturesConsequenceAffairSelfishGentlemanCowardRecklessBackbone Author:George Bernard Shaw
“I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.” PeopleGivingLongSaidEnoughSinAskingListsMinistersGentlemanLazyLazinessIdleEnough Said Book:John Ploughman's Talks Source: John Ploughman's Talks