#promise

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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute. There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.


Ayn Rand


#compromise #conflict-resolution #evil #indecisiveness #judgement

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.


Tom Allen


#cell research #cures #diseases #finding #holds

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?


King Abdullah II


#compromises #concessions #during #freedom #gifts

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.


Chinua Achebe


#compromised #integrity #refusal #tests #truest

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.


James Lane Allen


#day #dream #dreams #ideal #last

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.


Honore de Balzac


#coming #exist #fifteen #only #promise

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.


Isabelle Adjani


#keep #leave #love #persons #promises

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.


Freddy Adu


#disappeared #great #hyped #i #just

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.


Steve Allen


#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.


Aldrich Ames


#cia #compromised #handed #i #many