Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Контексте: I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
„Злые поступки совершаются по доброй воле.“
„Героизм — это добрая воля к абсолютной самопогибели.“
«Злая мудрость»
„Сильная воля человека может подчинить себе слабую волю.“
„Любовь — это восхитительный обман, на который человек соглашается по доброй воле.“
The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will.
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Источник: Philosophy of Freedom. Chapter 9
