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«Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.»
Author: Byron R. White
| About:
Crime,
Police
| Keywords:
apprehended, deadly, officer, Others The, poses
«When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most»
«The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.»
«We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Attitude
| Keywords:
awaken, Awakening The, Others The, The Awakening
«What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
by and by, creatures, firm, get in, lovelier, Others The, shrivelled, to each other, uglier, wretched
«We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
and so, convey, conveying, conveys, fellows, lonely, Others The, pitifully, side by side, treasures, unable, unknown
«Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep»
«The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Solidarity,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
benefits, compete, harm, helps, hoard, hoarded, hoarding, hoards, Others The, sage, sager
«The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.»
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