We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act. . . It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.
I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
Your personal choices matter. And you have the power. Use it.
Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.
We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.