Quote by William Penn on Human and Divine Laws
“People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.”
William Penn
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Quote by William Penn on Kindness and Life
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
William Penn
Quote by Hannah Arendt: Guiding Principle on Preparation and Acceptance
“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.”
Hannah Arendt
William Penn Quote on Judgment and Condemning Entire Peoples
“If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.”
William Penn
Quote by Hannah Arendt on Thinking, Morality, and Preventing Catastrophes
“This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.”
Hannah Arendt
William Penn Quote about Goodness and Selflessness
“He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.”
William Penn
Eisenhower Quote on Leadership and Democracy in America
“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.”
Eisenhower
Quote by Markus Krall: A programmatic role
“A programmatic role.”
Markus Krall
Quote by Rupert Sheldrake on Forgeries and Generalizations
“The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn’t prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.”
Rupert Sheldrake
Quote by Rupert Sheldrake on Machines and Stability
“Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don’t want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.”
Rupert Sheldrake