“A person who's willing to meet you halfway is usually, conveniently, a poor judge of distance.”
“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.”
“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
“Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.”
“A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.”
“As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.”