Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Category Archive: 1909
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife – a tyrannical midwife.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.