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;void(0)) . . . INGRATITUDE see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Ingratitude towards their great men is the mark of strong peoples. --Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-1945, 1951-1955]. _The Second World War_ [1948-1951] v. 1 The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. --Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Good-Natur'd Man_ [1768], ch. 3 My first qualification for this great office is my monumental personal ingratitude. --Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947) American politician who served three terms as mayor of New York City [1933-1945]. To job seekers following his election. We find few guilty of ingratitude while we are still in a position to help them. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French classical author. _Maxims_ #306, [1665] - I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist. _Twelfth-Night_ [1601-1602] Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist. _As You Like It_ [1599], II, 7, 174 - If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894]   INHUMANITY . . see: "EVIL" see: "IMMORALITY" Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. --Robert Burns (1759-1796) Scottish poet and songwriter, "Man Was Made to Mourn" [1786] The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 {EB}, _The Devil's Disciple_ [1897], act II . . see "SUCCESS" for related links Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. --William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) American Democratic and Populist politician who ran for the presidency three times. without success. In Genevieve Forbes Herrick & John Origen Herrick _The Life of William Jennings Bryan_ [2005], p.184. - When my mother died, I didn't understand death. Couldn't feature it. What do you mean she's gone forever? I was 15, living at a school for the blind 160 miles away from home. She was all I had in the world. No, she couldn't be dead. She'd be back tomorrow. Or the day after. Don't tell me about no death. Death can't take this woman. I need her. Can't make it without her. That's when I saw what everyone sees--you can't make a deal with death. No, sir. And you can't make a deal with God. Death is cold-blooded, and maybe God is too. So I'm alone, and I'm going crazy, until Ma Beck, a righteous Christian lady from the little country town where I grew up, wakes me and shakes me and says, "Boy, stop feeling sorry for yourself. You gotta carry on." Made me realize I had to depend on me. No one was going to do sh*t for me. You hear me? No one. I could praise Jesus till I'm blue in the face. I could fall on my knees and plead. Pray till the cows come home. But Mama ain't coming back. So if Mama gave me religion, the religion said, "Believe in yourself." --Ray Charles (1930-2004) American pianist and soul singer, _Brother Ray_ [2004], "The Last Days of Brother Ray" - Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. --Chinese saying Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. --Confucius (551-479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher God helps them that help themselves. --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist, _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1757] So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. --Luke 11:9 NIV Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. --Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) American preacher and author, attributed ---- supererogation (noun) [su-pê-'rer-ê-gey-shên] The act of performing beyond the call of duty; the act of doing more than is necessary. . . see: "INEQUALITY" When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. --Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866) English hostess and letter writer Biographies and/or related books about: J.A. Froude _Letters and Memorials_ [1883], entry [21 November 1855] - I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable netwrok of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever effects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American civil rights leader, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was evidenced sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meschach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar, on the ground that a higher moral law was at stake. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire. To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience. We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarain freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that had I lived in Germany at the time I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American civil rights leader, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" - Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. --Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) American theologian. Foreward to _The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness_ [1944]. TOPICAL 'I Am Not Guilty' November 15, 2006 _The Wall Street Journal_ On Monday in a Bangladesh courtroom, a judge read the following charge to a defendant: "By praising the Jews and Christians, by attempting to travel to Israel and by predicting the so-called rise of Islamist militancy in the country and expressing such through writings inside the country and abroad, you have tried to damage the image and relations of Bangladesh with the outside world. For which, charges under section 295-A, 120-A, 124-A, 105-A and 108-A are brought against you. Are you guilty or not?" Answered the defendant: "I am not guilty." The defendant is journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. As editor of the Weekly Blitz, Mr. Choudhury wrote articles friendly to Israel and critical of Islamic militants, and sought to travel to Israel in 2003 for a writers' conference. He never made it. Instead, he was detained at the airport in Dhaka, imprisoned in solitary confinement and without trial for 17 months and denied medical treatment for glaucoma. [ . . . ] - . . see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law; and, even *then,* if I could have been certain to haunt her. . . --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788-1824) English Romantic poet and satirist, letter [28 January 1817] ^ Churchill, Sir Winston (1874-1965) British statesman and prime minister. Churchill's actress daughter Sarah was married for a time to the music-hall entertainer Vic Oliver. Churchill did not particularly like him. Out walking one day, Oliver asked his father- in-law whom he had admired in the war. 'Mussolini,' growled Churchill surprisingly, adding, 'He had the courage to have his son-in-law shot.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ - Before anything else is to be done 50 cents is to be paid to my son-in-law to enable him to buy for himself a good stout rope with which to hang himself, and thus rid mankind of one of the most infamous scoundrels that ever roamed this broad land or dwelt outside of a penitentiary. --The Last Will and Testament of Garvey B. White [1908] - An older gentleman was on the operating table awaiting surgery and he insisted that his son, a renowned surgeon, perform the operation. As he was about to get the anesthesia, he asked to speak to his son. "Yes, Dad, what is it? " "Don't be nervous, son; do your best and just remember, if it doesn't go well, if something happens to me, your mother is going to come and live with you and your wife...." -  INNER PEACE . . see "HAPPINESS" for related links We build our personal world calm or wild according to what we want to live. We can weave utter peace in the midst of chaos. We can destroy in the midst of paradise. Depends on how we shape our spirit. --Richard Bach (1936- ) American writer, "Running From Safety" Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. --Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Congregational minister Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you, for whether they speak good or ill of you makes no difference to what you are. True peace and joy is to be found in Me alone. He who is neither anxious to please nor afraid to displease men enjoys true peace. --Thomas a' Kempis (1380-1471) German ascetical writer, _The Imitation of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 3, "Against Slander" . . see "CHARACTER" for related links Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. --Juvenal (c. 55-130) Roman satirist It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. --Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist . . We find, in the rules laid down by the greatest English judges, who have been the brightest of mankind; we are to look upon it as more beneficial, that many guilty persons should escape unpunished, than one innocent person should suffer. The reason is, because it is of more importance to the community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in the world, that all of them cannot be punished; and many times they happen in such a manner, that it is not of much consequence to the public, whether they are punished or not. But when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, it is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security. And if such a sentiment as this should take place in the mind of the subject, there would be an end to all security whatsoever. --John Adams (1735—1826) First VP and second President of the United States. In Frederic Kidder _History of the Boston Massacre_ [1870]. Out of the mouth of babes . . . --Bible "The Book of Psalms" 8:2-5 ^ Re: The Nuremberg Trials Judge: Britain's Sir Norman Birkett He had come to Nuremberg already famous in London courts for his sharp wit. With his red hair peeking out from under his judicial wig, he once offered a minor criminal his last words before the bench. 'As God is my judge', said the man, 'I'm innocent.' 'He isn't, I am, and you aren't,' replied Birkett. --In Walter Cronkite (1916— ) American broadcast journalist. _A Reporter's Life_ [1996] ^ A governor of a certain state was visiting the state prison, and stopped to talk with a number of prisoners. They told him their story, and in every instance it was one of wrong suffered by an innocent person. There was one man, however, who admitted his crime and the justice of his sentence. "I must pardon you," said the governor; "I can't have you in here corrupting all these good men." --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. In _Lincoln's Wit_ [1958], "1864." - Honi soit qui mal y pense. Evil be to him who evil thinks. --anon. (Motto of the Order of the Garter, originated by Edward III, probably on 23 April 1348 or 1349 ODTQ.) ----- exculpate EK-skuhl-payt; ek-SKUHL-payt, transitive verb: To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit. . . see "DISCOVERY" for related links ^ Everyone was in agreement that the cell phones had to be banned [at the 2001 U.S. Open]. Warnings had been sent out with all tickets telling people not to bring cell phones. Still, they brought them. There were reports coming back from Jones Beach [where spectators took buses to Bethpage] that people who were discovered with cell phones during pat-downs were just tossing them into bushes rather than going back to their cars and then lining up again. At the end of the day, some people were spotted getting off buses, walking to the bushes where they and many others had tossed cell phones. They would pick up the first phone they found and dial their own cell-phone number, then follow the ringing until they found their own. --John Feinstein _Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black_ [2003] ^ There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the intro- duction of a new order of things. --Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher, _The Prince_ [written 1513] ch. 6 Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. --Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) (1694-1778) French writer and philosopher end page | IDAHO - IDIOTS | IDLENESS - IMMATURITY | IMMIGRATION & IMMORALITY | IMMORTALITY - IMPOSTORS | IMPRESSIONABLE - INDECISION | INDEPENDENCE - INDIANA | INDIFFERENCE - INDIVIDUALITY | INDOCTRINATION - INFORMATION | INGRATITUDE - INNOVATION | INNUENDO - INSPIRATION | INSULTS - INTENTIONS | INTERESTED(ING) - INTUITION | INVENTIONS - ITCHING | JACKSON - JOGGING | JOHNSON (LYNDON) - JOY | JOURNALISM | JUDGE (TO) - JUSTICE | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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