"A great deal may be done by..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.”
“We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.”
“A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.”
More on Leadership
“The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.”
“It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job.”
“I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.”
More on Justice
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.”
“This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.”
“Forgiveness does not mean excusing.”