“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.” LongMomentsSeemsHoursLove IsStruggleClearVictoryTestsDefeatConvictionFirmReasoningIronGatesResolutionIrrevocableSophistryAfter Hours Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.” KnowsHumansMatterMomentsHumanityIndividualHuman BeingsExistenceIdealsLaysConvictionFollyConsiderationDeceivingMistrustCirculation Author:Albert Schweitzer
“Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.” PeopleWritingYearsStillsMomentsAgeFatherPartyNumbersClassAspectConvictionGoldenLinksCommunistSovietWorking ClassGolden AgeCommunist PartyPersonal HistoryGulagsBrezhnev Author:Alexander Cockburn
“Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.” MomentsGenerationsInfluenceMankindProduceInstitutionsConvictionEnthusiasmEverlastingAbidingEloquenceBegets Author:James Russell Lowell