It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
We should all do what we can in our daily lives to remember that we are glorious and powerful.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.