Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.
When mobs take the law in their hands either the rulers have consented to this, or have become impotent.
Experts are men who make simple things complicated. Masters do the reverse.
When a completely disabled Stephen Hawking questions the concept of god one cannot fail to admire his belief in atheism!
When something is not working, like a vehicle not starting, probably more than new energy you need new knowledge. Seek it.
Some men love so as to seek approval of their goodness.
Violence did, does and likely will have a role. But all forms of mindless, target-less, disproportionate violence is against civility and is counter productive.
A person’s stature ought to be measured not by how tall he has grown but by how often he has had to bow, and how low, in the process.
Prohibition is good. For others.
A society where successes – in politics, business, religion – come with fundamental compromises is a decayed society. Its “successfuls” are the scum of the earth.