Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They read more

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas read more

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy read more

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human read more

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have?

Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have?

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the read more

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.

Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.

Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.