A man may conduct himself well in both adversity and good fortune, but if you want to test his character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Tag: Quotes
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando
The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
In the dawning knowledge age, how well we live will depend on how well we learn.
Ray Hnatyshyn, 1991
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Paul Valéry
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Elliot
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Reading: The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston Churchill
Reading: The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston Churchill
The story of a young Winston Churchill in 1897 fighting fanatical tribal warriors in modern day Pakistan–see his chilling description of what we hear all too often in today’s news:
Every influence, every motive, that provokes the spirit of murder among men, impels these mountaineers to deeds of treachery and violence. The strong aboriginal propensity to kill, inherent in all human beings, has in these valleys been preserved in unexampled strength and vigour. That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword–the tenets and principles of which are instinct with incentives to slaughter and which in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men–stimulates a wild and merciless fanaticism.
Wikipedia
I haven’t read this book yet, but came across of a reference to it in my current team read at the office (The Mission, The Men and Me, more about that in a future post) and was delighted to find the free Kindle edition of the eBook on Project Gutenberg. I believe this is the hardcover edition depicted by the cover image above.