💬 Quotes

"The common people of Spain are a noble race, with an air of proud independence which they preserve even in rags."

"Thus it is that history becomes identified with poetry, and the Alhambra remains as a monument of an age of romance and splendor that has passed away forever."

"We are bound to see to it that the free development of our institutions does not become impeded by the barriers of class and caste, and that we shall not lose our national democracy."

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

"The settlement, then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city."

"Action is the only medium through which the wise ethical insight can convert itself into demonstrable reality."

"Settlement demands nothing less of its residents than that they shall give up preconceived judgments and shall make themselves a part of the community, sharing its life and its perplexities."

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."

"The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."

"When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become conscious of anything to pass through your mind."

"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man, and as the man dies, the shadow begins to fade unless others step into his light."

"Secret societies are bound to fail because they must inevitably exclude the very diversity which renewal requires."

"Survival is the ability to swim in strange water."

"What is that is not known is more significant than what is known."

"Black Swans are based on three attributes: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability."

"Mild success can be explainable; extremes are not."

"We focus on preselected segments of the seen and generalize from it to the unseen: the error of confirmation."

"History does not crawl, it jumps. It builds up-slowly and incrementally, but it panics and reacts to a crisis."

"I want to live a life that is as immune as possible to informational blabber."

"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him, no wind that blew was bitterer than he."