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.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.
Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
The Lord shapes the back to bear the burden placed upon it.
Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
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