C. T. Vivian quotes

C. T. Vivian quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat youâ€¦ You are made by the struggles you choose.”
-- C. T. Vivian

#Struggle Quotes #Action Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.”

Source : "Some Notes on Workers' Education" by A. J. Muste, first published in "New International", Volume 2, No. 7 (pp. 225-227), www.marxists.org. December 1935.
“At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.”
“I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.”

Source : "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.
“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press
“How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.”
“The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.”
“Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.”
“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”
“It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.”
“Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.”

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