Quote by Mitch Albom
People are only mean when theyre threatened, and thats what our cu

People are only mean when theyre threatened, and thats what our culture does. Thats what our economy does. – Mitch Albom

Other quotes by Mitch Albom

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves. – Mitch Albom

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Anger
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day. – Mitch Albom

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Family
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Fear
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. – Amelia Barr

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Fear

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. – Margaret Mead

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Fear

Freedom is contagious. Thats why despots fear it so much. – Bill Owens

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Fear

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. – John Hawkes

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Fear

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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you’re always flying off to blue perfection? – Rumi

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Rumi

Jim Crow was king . . . and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive. The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered. – Lou Brock

We’re a compulsive but amiable crew, those of us who feel, or have felt, the compulsion to re-record the bright thoughts of other men and women. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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Quotations

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. – Rene Cassin

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Courage