#formed

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#always #believe #capacity #compassion #enough

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice. ↗

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#do the right thing #hostages #informed #people #prejudice

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#great #ideas #important #judgement #line

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind. ↗

— King Hussein I

#depleted #mind #personality #reduced #stagnant

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#energy #forward #hope #illuminating #into

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. ↗

— Scott Adams

#blaming #comes #decision-making #guessing #inadequate

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#executives #formed #guarantee #haven #lots

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#consequences #formed #glass #intellectual #interests

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #fbi #free #haven #impose