War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
John Stuart MillTag: motivational inspirational injustice morality ethics justice war fight foreign-policy patriotic safety selfish tyranny will
At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just a surge of hormones; the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding. We need not believe in them as metaphysical entities -- they are as real as the flesh and blood they are made of. But we must believe in them as entities; not as analyzed fragments, but as wholes made real by our contemplation of them, by the words we use to talk of them, by the way we have transmuted them to speech. We must stand in awe of them as unassailable, even though they are dissected before our eyes.
Melvin KonnerTag: soul will understanding
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
Aleister CrowleyStrength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma GandhiTag: strength will inner-strength mahatma-gandhi
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Alle Dinge müssen, der Mensch allein ist das Wesen, welches will.
Meister EckhartDa man nicht tun kann, was man will, muss man das wollen, was man tun kann.
TerenceTag: will
Die Freiheit des Menschen liegt nicht darin, dass er tun kann, was er will, sondern dass er nicht tun muss, was er nicht will.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMacht ist nur die leere Erhöhung des eigenen Willens über den Willen anderer.
Mario PuzoDr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.
Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.
Tag: food will humour fiction pancakes stranger crick ferrell harold helm than zach
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio GramsciTag: science intelligence optimism pessimism will intellect
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