Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Your heart has been sore wounded too. Dear Light, love shall cherish you, till you again look on life with happy eyes. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay
A leader who confines his role to his peoples experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his peoples experience runs the risk of not being understood. – Henry A. Kissinger
