Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all read more
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, read more
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others read more
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.
No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having read more
No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
