"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."
― Thomas Sowell
Topic(s):
Courage
More From Thomas Sowell
- "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."
- "People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do."
- "If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."
More In Courage
- "Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war."― Bianca Jagger
- "People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery."― Graham Greene
- "Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."― Jean Paul