Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Category Archive: 1838
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.