QUOTES
The
sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to
be either good or evil.
Economic
growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions
can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Forgiveness
is the key to action and freedom.
It
is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary
association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of
the country.
Love,
by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity
that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of
all anti-political human forces.
The
defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political,
as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event
of the last decade.
The
new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their
probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty;
the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
This
is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best;
and take what comes.
