Janos Kadar Quotes

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

I ask you, men of all classes, to come forward voluntarily, and take your share in the fight.

A decent society is not based on rights. It is based on duty. Our duty to one another. To all should be given opportunity; from all responsibility demanded.

The members of the Church, as members of society, have the same right and duty to promote the common good as do other citizens.

I have been an anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one. I should consider it very sad indeed had I to turn to a General and rule men with a military rod.... I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship

Family, Nation, Work!

The trouble is that we live in a culture where individuation and instant gratification are kings--and civic work requires selflessness and patience.

I can as well use private [commercial] airlines. I am already used to hitchhiking. I must demonstrate to Malawians that we are in this together. I must be the first person to set an example.

Liberalism is: To let things drift if they do not affect one personally; to say as little as possible while knowing perfectly well what is wrong, to be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame

It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.

People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.