Our Leaders Are Cruel Because Only Those Willing To Be Inordinately Cruel And Remorseless Can Hold Positions Of Leadership In The Foreign Policy Establishment. People Capable Of Expressing A Full Human Measure Of Compassion And Empathy Toward Faraway Powerless Strangers Do Not Become President Of The United States, Or Vice President, Or Secretary Of State, Or National Security Adviser Or Secretary Of The Treasury. Nor Do They Want To.
When You Do A Good Turn You Feel Rich, Even If You Are Broke.
I Never Liked Anyone Who Didn't Have A Temper. If You Don't Have A Temper, You Don't Have Any Passion.
The Art And Passion Of Reading Well And Deeply Is Waning, But [jane] Austen Still Inspires People To Become Fanatical Readers.
The Students [of The 60's] Substituted Conspicuous Compassion For Their Parents' Conspicuous Consumption.
The Utilitarian Behaves Sensibly In All That Is Required For Preservation But Never Takes Account Of The Fact That He Must Die... His Whole Life Is Absorbed In Avoiding Death, Which Is Inevitable, And Therefore He Might Be Thought To Be The Most Irrational Of Men, If Rationality Has Anything To Do With Understanding Ends Or Comprehending The Human Situation As Such.
Education Is Not The Taming Or Domestication Of The Soul's Raw Passions - Not Suppressing Them Or Excising Them, Which Would Deprive The Soul Of Its Energy - But Forming And Informing Them As Art.
This Music Business Can Suck All The Love Out Of You, All The Compassion For People - You Can Start To Think You're Better Than Them. But I Want To Continue To Let People Know That I'm No Better And No Worse, I'm Just Like You.
When Someone Comes Up To Me And Says, 'mary, You Helped Save My Marriage', Or, 'mary, You Helped Me Get Out Of This Abusive Relationship', I'm In It, Really In Their Lives. And I'm So Passionate About My Feelings, But Also About Showing People The Way Through Theirs.
When You Look At Facing Retirement In Your Mid-30s, And All Of A Sudden The Outlet For That Passion And Work Ethic Goes Away, You Can't Just Sit Back In A Rocking Chair And Be Retired At 35. I'm Not A Good Enough Golfer To Play Golf Every Day.
Fairly Early In My Career, I Had A Passion For Wine Just As A Consumer, And I Started To Learn About The Whole Process, Starting With A Piece Of Raw Ground, And Ending Up With A Work Of Art In A Bottle.
The Essence Of Theosophy Is The Perfect Harmonizing Of The Divine With The Human In Man, The Adjustment Of His God-like Qualities And Aspirations, And Their Sway Over The Terrestrial Or Animal Passions In Him. Kindness, Absence Of Every Ill Feeling Or Selfishness, Charity, Goodwill To All Beings, And Perfect Justice To Others As To Oneself, Are Its Chief Features. He Who Teaches Theosophy Preaches The Gospel Of Goodwill; And The Converse Of This Is True Also — He Who Preaches The Gospel Of Goodwill, Teaches Theosophy.
