"When our actions do not, our fears..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”
“Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.”
“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.”
More on Inaction
“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”
“To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.”
“One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.”