Values

"There are more slaves today than at any point in history. 12-27 million forced to work at subsistence pay under threat of violence. The US government estimates 50,000 people work in hidden bondage.  90% are used for sex, indentured domestics ...

“You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.” - W. Somerset Maugham ...

“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

"At the boys level, hero worship gravitates toward the doer of spectacular deeds; on the average adult level, toward the wielder of power; and in the eyes of a more critical judgment, toward idealism and moral qualities." - Dixon Wecter ...

"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat." - Malcolm Forbes ...

"We have men loosening the nails on Noah's ark." - Robert Bly ...

"Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci ...

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr ...

"If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that’s all I have to say." - Jack Handey ...

"These three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying."  - Gladwell ...