Evil Is Dull, That Is

Mexican Writer And Diplomat, "pasado En Claro" ("a Draft Of Shadows") You Learn Something The Day You Die. You Learn How To Die.

But My Belief Is Growing That Our Political And Social Evils Are Remediable, If Only All Of Us Who Want A Change For The Better Just Get Up And Work For It, All The Time, With As Much Knowledge And Intelligence As We Can Muster For It. Half The Wrongs Of Human Life Exist Because Of The Inertia Of People Who Simply Will Not Use Their Energies In Fighting For What They Believe In. And Finally The Wrongs Roll Up Into World Catastrophes And Millions Of Deaths And A Terrible Set-back For All Mankind.

Perhaps The Habit Which Distinguishes Civilized People From Others Is That Of Discussion, Exchange Of Opinion And Ideas, The Ability To Differ Without Quarrelling, To Say What You Have To Say Civilly And Then To Listen Civilly To Another Speaker.

The Thing Is Not To Follow A Pattern. Follow Your Own Pattern Of Feeling And Thought. The Thing Is To Accept Your Own Life And Not Try To Live Someone Else's Life. Look, The Thumbprint Is Not Like Any Other, And The Thumbprint Is What You Must Go By.

You Shouldn't Side-step Suffering If You Have To Go Through It To Get Where You're Going.