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...Gandhi's conviction was further bolstered by Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Thoreau's famed essay Civil Disobedience, both written by men who made celebrated attempts to carry out nonviolence. What emerged in Gandhi was a hard-boiled idea that sacrificing oneself is ultimately more effective than sacrificing others...
Since people identify themselves with a hero, he said, pity is really "feeling sorry for oneself." Accordingly, he entitled one section of his speech "In praise of Self-Pity." "We don't lament in English," he said, and the phrase "O woe is me" is eliminated from translations of Greek dramas. 'But if we have dismissed self-pity from daily life, it remains in our night life. We still weep in our dreams...
...boyhood home with all its sheltering cosiness and frightening mysteries. "You can penetrate into the heart of the work, which seems important to me. It's like the pleasure of walking in a park." And what does one find after penetrating into a Dwelling? "Why, oneself, of course," says Etienne-Martin...
...that I was particularly surprised by Mr. Smith's letter, since I share his hostility to the current fad of foreign policy "images"--a way of expressing oneself which actually figured very little in the conference on December 2 and 3. H. Stuart Hughes, Professor of History...
...supine loyalty to the organization are too often encouraged and rewarded. The organizational man, cloaked in a sort of anonymity, rather than the responsible individual, is favored and advanced. The preparation for this condition is found even in the field of education, where emphasis is placed on adapting oneself to the thinking of the group...