Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?<br> Vanity asks the question - is it popular?<br> Expediency asks the question - is it political?<br> But conscience asks the question - is it right?<br> <br> There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower. J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel) If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Chapter 1 I can live two months on a good compliment. Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) It is better to think too much, than to think too little Eric Kopras, myself (i thought it up) Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion. Publilius Syrus
(~100 BC) To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men. Ella Wheeler Wilcox He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals. Ben Franklin What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was not nailed down. Harlen Ellison, interview with Charlie Rose | 
