Huck Finn Steamboat Quotes & Sayings

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them. — Shunryu Suzuki

Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things. — Jack Kornfield

Happy is he who hath one desire, if that one desire be set on Christ, though it may not yet have been realized. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. — Peter Thiel

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter. — Zane Grey

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company. — William Shakespeare