“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.”
May Sarton
“what separates humans from animals is the ability to think beyond basic instincts. And yet, some refuse to use that benefit.”
H Rosano
“Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
William James
“Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.”
Czeslaw Milosz
“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”
C. Wright Mills
“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
