Larry Wall Quotes

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Freedom is won by violence, but needs mutual tolerance to survive.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I believe that love gives you the freedom and power to share your best self and to inspire others.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

Love is bigger than government.

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.