“It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.” MadeAgeChangeWasteSeasonsWineDrinkingSpiteBottles Book:Studies and Essays Source: Studies and Essays
“Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.” MenKindMadeStuffTroubleGreatnessWeakTestsSpiteRise AboveHandicaps Book:Getting on Source: Getting on
“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.” MenMadeFactsLyingAbilityClassSucceedEncouragementSpiteCommentAssistanceEmployersScarce Book:A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written
“Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.” PeopleHas BeensMadeTodayReligionResultsMoralSecurityMaterialsCivilizationBenefitsConscienceInstitutionsSurrenderCompromiseOrganizedSpiteProtestOccasionalAdjustmentMaterialisticOrganized Religion Author:Saul Alinsky