Stephen Herbits quotes

“The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.”
-- Stephen Herbits

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“Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.”

“the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that”

“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.”

“The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness”

“All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.”

“Leadership demands that we make tough choices.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2014). “The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.74, Delacorte Press

“Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.”

“One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..”

“Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.”