💬 Quotes

"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."

"I wear the chain I forged in life... I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girt it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."

"Spirit,' said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, 'tell me if Tiny Tim will live.'"

"Men's courses foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, but if the courses be departed from, the ends will change."

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me."