Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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Letter to William J. Kennedy (29 October 1959), p. 192Hunter S. Thompson
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"Don't be afraid of anything, just take it easy, easy. Let the women and children go first. Thirty buses are coming, we're send you off toward Kladanj. Don't be afraid of anything, nobody is going to do anything to you. Thank you, thank you. Thanks, be safe. Nobody knows anything. Everything is done on my order."
Ratko Mladic
To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.
Mark (educator) Hopkins
It's not easy for me
To give away a secret —
It's not safe…Kate Bush
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.
Simone De Beauvoir
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