“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance”
George Bernard Shaw
“Unfortunately, AIDS is one of those issues that because it is so morally complex, governments tend to be very reluctant to respond until the last minute,”
Graham Smith
“Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.”
Dale E. Turner
“He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.”
Frantz Fanon
“You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.”
Corazon Aquino
“Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.”
Charles Dickens
“I have been reluctant to publicly castigate an administration, but I think this particular administration has departed from all previous presidents, ... Our Endangered Values.”
Jimmy Carter
