top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
Standard
Customized
More
"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful " but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities " but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation's history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes' conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality."
Relationship
"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."
Mindfulness
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
Conscience
"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
Bible
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
Perspective
"You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them."
Empathy
"Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open."
Communication
"But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent."
Justice
"I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it."
Observation
"He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being."
Philosophy
bottom of page