A Quote by Adlai E. Stevenson

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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Adlai E. Stevenson
Politician
February 5, 1900 - July 14, 1965

Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

Peter Benenson

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

Matthew Gray Gubler

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Al Gore

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

Confucius

You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.

Patrick Kane

The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

Irving Greenberg

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

Leonard Ravenhill

It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.

Hafsat Abiola

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

Ion Keith-Falconer

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.'

Al Seckel

Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!