Quotes By Bryant H. McGill

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.