Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
¶ The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) Greek dramatist (Æschylus)
Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.
¶ Agamemnon, l. 179
Alt. trans.:
"He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despite, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
The above alternate was misquoted by Robert Kennedy in his speecn on the assassination of Martin Luther King (4 Apr 1968). Kennedy's family used it as an epitaph on his grave Arlington National Cemetery:
"In our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) American revolutionary, statesman
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
¶ Speech, State House of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1 Aug 1776)
Robert Frost (1874-1963) American poet
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
¶ "Fire and Ice" (1923)
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.
¶ Religion and Science, ch. 1 "Ground of Conflict" (1935)
Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970) American Methodist clergyman
Open-mindedness is a virtue all praise and few possess. Prejudice is a sin everyone denounces and almost no one seriously confesses.
¶ "The Open Mind," Protestantism: A Symposium, ed. William K. Anderson (1944)
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Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980) US Supreme Court (1939-75)
Freedom of thought, which includes freedom of religious belief, is basic in a society of free men. It embraces the right to maintain theories of life and of death and of the hereafter which are rank heresy to followers of the orthodox faiths. Heresy trials are foreign to our Constitution. Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
¶ Majority opinion, United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944)
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Alan Alda (b. 1936) American actor [b. Alponso Joseph D'Abruzzo]
I used to be afraid that writing and acting in comedies might be a frivolous occupation, but when I think about all the good that laughing does for people, I get the feeling that making people laugh can be noble work.
¶ Commencement Speech, Connecticut College (1980)
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Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British statesman and orator
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
¶ Speech (18 Feb 1788)
Quoted in E. A. Bond (ed.). Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings, vol. 1, p. 104 (1859)
Sophocles (496-406 BC) Greek tragic playwright
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
¶ The Women of Trachis, l. 813.
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