Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
Quotes
John Burroughs (1837-1921) American Naturalist and Writer
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States
Harsh justice as way of maintaining small state in England
For both Johnson and Burke, the key to sustaining social order was what they called “subordination.†Today that word probably suggests servility or even
Property Laws in Victorian England
Subordination was the philosophical basis for the grim fact that the vast majority of crimes, even those punishable by death, were crimes against property.
Acceptance by the lower classes
Burke wrote during the panic that followed the French Revolution, “must not find the principles of natural subordination by art [i.e., artfully specious arguments]
Steinbeck on basic morals
I must admit that cruelty and force exerted against weakness turn me sick with rage, but this would be equally true in the treatment
Greatest Japanese ace, post war
This is Sakai’s own statement of the postwar period: “In the Imperial Japanese Navy I learned only one trade — how to man a
Tom Wolfe on the power of bureaucrats
It was the power of the government over the freedom of its subjects. To think of it in the abstract made it seem so
Moral relativity
The first idea or teaching is that morality is relative, at best a personal “value judgment.†Relative means that there is no absolute right