No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
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...That we must never forgive would seem to follow from the same stern logic. For if we forgive, it will be a sign to those in the future that they can act without fear of punishment, and that the world has a moral escape valve labeled 'forgiveness' that permits evil not only to survive but to thrive...Forgiveness becomes a 'weak' virtue, one that Christians seem particularly prone to champion, and one that always carries the possibility of condoning, rather than constricting, the spread of evil.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear trans...
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
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A nation that has no bridle on its sensuality, can never thrive our survive.
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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
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As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
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Our forebears labored without wages. They made cotton king. And yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop.
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The unfit die -- the fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so They who do survive.
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
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Determination makes a person thrive in life.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.
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We just seem to thrive on adversity.
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Being fooled, by foolery thrive; There's place and means for every man alive.
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