"But to admire a strong person and..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”
“If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!”
More on Power
“We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.”
“My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.”
“Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.”
More on Admiration
“We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.”
“Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.”
“These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.”