As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.