“When you look at the gyrations in his policies, it appears he's plagued by an absence of core values. He comes across as a caricature, where energy and enthusiasm are confused with core values.”
Arnold Steinberg
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”
William Shakespeare
“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighbouring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace. The other phenomena mentioned above are similarly interrelated. Thus, for example, we see that a clean environment, wealth or democracy mean little in the face of war, especially nuclear war, and that material development is not sufficient to ensure human happiness.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“…moral paralysis of those who value 'openness' above all (democracy is more than) openness and toleration... In the absence of common standards... tolerance becomes indifference.”
Christopher Lasch
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
