You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. – Michael Piller and Michael Wagner, Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Evolution,”
Acceptance of ones life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. – Paul Tournier
Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. – Charles Horton Cooley