Althing Island Quotes

#1. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realised that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

Elbert Hubbard

#3. Leading change means bringing people with you to a better state than any of you could have envisaged alone.

A.J. Sheppard

#4. It's a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.

Raif Badawi

#5. I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

William P. Leahy

#6. Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

Democritus

#7. Our modern conception of the average person is not a mathematical truth but a human invention, created a century and a half ago by two European scientists to solve the social problems of their era.

Todd Rose