“The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.” MenHumansCharacterPurposeSufferingHumanityEvilMoralOpinionHellProgressHe ManStandardsConscienceIntentionCrueltyOppressionGood ManOppressedInjuredGood IntentionsTreasonHuman SufferingPersonal CharacterMoral Evil Author:Robert Briffault
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.” MenMindChildrenMadeCountryWholeUseGovernmentCareAgeSufferingCoursesOpinionYouthLettersMethodIllVicesImpressionMannersPreservesPriestsFlexibleFollow Me Book:Utopia Source: Utopia
“It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.” IfsFeelsSufferingGrowsCausesOpinionSeaLandSonDaughterStrongerLiftsResolveDeniedHumiliationCompassBansOur DaughterYour DaughterYour Son Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.” DoeSufferingCausesOpinionOppositesPossessionOwnershipRapture Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery