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If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.

– Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of MiraclesRate it:

If our democracy is to flourish it must have criticism, if our government is to function it must have dissent. Only totalitarian governments insist upon conformity and they - as we know - do so at their peril.

– Henry Steele CommagerRate it:

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.

– Henry CommagerRate it:

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

– Henry CommagerRate it:

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

– Peter McWilliamsRate it:

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

– Lysander SpoonerRate it:

If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations.

– Benjamin HarrisonRate it:

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.

– Max LucadoRate it:

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

– Thomas JeffersonRate it:

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

– MetastasioRate it:

If our love is deep and broad enough, we will be pained by obstacles to unity and will work harder to overcome them.

– Francis Cardinal George, OMIRate it:

If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.

– Rolland W. SchloerbRate it:

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

– Sun TzuRate it:

If our values don't align with the truth, they are valueless values. So our values determine our value.

– Goa KerleRate it:

If partners understand and match each other, it fragrances passion and affection; otherwise, it causes frustration and depression.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

If passion gaineth the mastery over reason, the wise will not count thee amongst men.

– FirdausiRate it:

If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.

– John RussellRate it:

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

– Henry KissingerRate it:

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

– Osho, My Way: The Way of The White CloudsRate it:

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

– Ernest HemingwayRate it:

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

– Carl JungRate it:

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

– George OrwellRate it:

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

– Doug LarsonRate it:

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