Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Interpretation
Creative individuals who don't conform play a vital role in societal progress and change.
This quote suggests that those who think and behave differently, often seen as 'maladjusted' by society, have the potential to drive innovation and improvements, leading to the salvation of humanity. It highlights the importance of creativity and independent thought in addressing social issues and achieving meaningful change.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire creativity in students.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.
We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
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