For Thought
Wednesday 21 July 2010
Over the next few months we, as a voting population, will have much to think about as we determine our country’s governance for the next four years. Much (some may say too much) will be written and said. It is always a challenging decision as we move between so many different emotions or intellectual positions.
So far as in us lies, we must play the immortal and do all in our power to live by the best element in our nature.
ARISTOTLE (384-322 BCE)
ON INTERPRETATION
To be able to practise five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue....gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
CONFUCIUS (551-479 BCE)
ANALECTS
Unity is the great need of the hour, and if we are united we can get many of the things that we not only desire but which we justly deserve.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929-1968)
Civil Rights Leader
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
SWEDISH PROVERB