“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil… God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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Inspiring and insightful quotes pulled from Ryan Holiday’s third book of his most recent stoic series over Justice, one of the four cardinal virtues of stoicism.
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