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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#herd #influence #need #out #sake

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#asked #being #called #community #competition

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. ↗

— Edward Bond

#became #collective #experience #goodness #in the past

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks. ↗

— Edward Bond

#greeks #our #theatre

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. ↗

— Edward Bond

#head-on #i #play #problem #put

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work. ↗

— Julian Bond

#challenging #couple #education #every #every day

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#direction #end #heading #may #up

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well. ↗

— Julian Bond

#branches #doing #even #finances #grassroots

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year. ↗

— Julian Bond

#back #because #big #big impact #branch

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. ↗

— Julian Bond

#line #politics #theatricals #thin