Pete Weber Quotes & Sayings

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back. — Lawrence Fagg

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way. — Anna Deavere Smith

Listen, then," says the angry Sophist (Thrasymachus), "I proclaim that might is right, and justice is the interest of the stronger. The different forms of government make laws, democratic, aristocratic, or autocratic, with a view to their respective interests; and these laws, so made by them to serve their interests, they deliver to their subjects as "justice," and punish as "unjust" anyone who transgresses them. — Plato

When individuals combine in a joint effort to realize ends the have in common, the organizations, like the state, that they form for this purpose are given their own system of ends and their own means. But any organization thus formed remains one "person" among other, in the case of the state much more powerful than any of the others, it is true, yet still with its separate and limited sphere in which alone its ends are supreme. — Friedrich Hayek

greater good in this story - God sparing Joe from a fatal accident. But Joe has to depend on faith. If you realize that God is operating from the vantage point of eternity, and that His Plan for you concerns your life in the next world as well as this one, then you will be more attuned to Him. Then your humility — Mother Angelica

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP. — Helen Clark