When we create a quote of our own, we naturally draw not just from our own experience, but from all that we have accumulated over time. Thus there's always the possibility that what we create may be very close to an existing quote.
I've noticed this amongst the quotes of the ages, because often I've found someone of note being credited with a quote that's virtually the same (or very similar to) someone else's. And some quotes are credited to the wrong person.
IF THE WORLD WAS MADE UP OF LOVE, GARNISHED WITH TENDER THOUGHT AND CARE,
BAKED IN THE OVEN OF HUMAN KINDNESS, AND REGULARLY DIPPED IN SELFLESSNESS,
IT WOULD BE THE GREATEST OF TREATS, AND A NEVER-ENDING SOURCE OF BLISS.
LOVE LIKE YOUR NEED TO BREATHE
LOVE IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF INTELLIGENCE
WHERE SEEDS OF KINDNESS ARE SOWN, LOVE'S LASTING FRAGRANCE IS KNOWN
WHEN LOVE'S BEHIND ALL THAT WE SAY AND DO, WE'VE NO
REASON FOR FEAR AND NOTHING TO RUE
LOVE IS THE GREATEST ANTIDOTE
THE FLAME OF LOVE SHOULD BURN IN EVERY HEART, AND FROM
THE LIFE OF ALL, SHOULD NEVER DEPART
LOVE IS THE GREATEST TRUTH, HATE IS THE BIGGEST LIE
THE ONLY ARMS THAT THIS WORLD SHOULD INVEST IN IS LOVING ARMS
WHEN
LOVE IN ALL ITS SELFLESS, UNTAINTED BEAUTY, GOVERNS THE HEART AND MIND,
NOTHING MARVELS MORE SO; AND EVEN MORE SO, WHERE WITH TRUTH IT'S BEEN COMBINED
THAT LOVE IS THE ONLY ANSWER IS PROVEN BY THE FACT
THAT HATE AND INJURY NEVER ARE
WITHOUT LOVE, HUMANITY WOULD CEASE TO EXIST, SOON DESTROYED BY GUN AND FIST
IF LOVE'S NOT PROPELLING EVERYTHING WE SAY AND DO,
THEN THE QUESTION IS, WHAT OR WHO?
LOVE IN FULL VOICE SHOULD ALWAYS AND LOUDLY RING, AND YET, HOW OFTEN IS
IT GIVEN THAT CHANCE TO SING?
MAY YOUR EARS BE ATTUNED, YOUR EYES PITYING, AND YOUR LIPS ENCOURAGING
EVERY HEART SHOULD RAGE AT INJURY, NO MATTER WHO, NO MATTER WHERE,
AND A DESIRE FOR JUSTICE SHOULD SHARE
ARMS ARE FOR EMBRACING, HANDS ARE FOR CARING, HEARTS ARE FOR LOVING,
AND BRAINS ARE FOR UNITING
LISTEN WITH YOUR HEART, SEARCH WITH YOUR EARS, AND SPEAK WITH YOUR EYES,
LOVE, NOTHING LESS; TRUTH, NOTHING BUT; HONOUR, NOTHING LOST
WHEN LOVE IS PUT FIRST AND SELF IS PUT LAST, SOCIETY BLOSSOMS
AND RELATIONSHIPS LAST
LOVE IS MEDICINE, HATE IS POISON
IF LOVE CAUGHT YOU LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW, WOULD
YOU SMILE IN RECOGNITION OR PULL THE CURTAINS?
IT TAKES HEART TO CHANGE THINGS
YES, NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE VALUE OF A QUOTE, AND MORE SO WHERE IT RHYMES, HAS DONNED
ITS HAT AND COAT (EVEN KEPT UP WITH THE TIMES), THUS BEWITCHING AS MUCH AS INFORMING — SUCCINCTLY, THAT IS — BE IT HERS OR HIS —
AND THUS SOME TRUTH DAWNING, A SENTENCE OR
TWO SUMMARISING A PARAGRAPH
OR TWO, AND THUS OFTEN AS HANDY AS A HANKERCHIEF, HELPING
ONE SEE SENSE
LEST ONE MEET WITH GRIEF, OR SIMPLY HELPING ONE TO UNDERSTAND, AND THEREBY,
SUCH BEING A HELPING HAND, LIKE THE FOLLOWING ONE: ALWAYS FINISH
WHAT YOU'VE BEGUN
(WHICH I THINK I'VE DONE).
NEVER THINK THAT YOU CAN OUTSMART WISDOM, NOR OUTFOX SENSE, BECAUSE BOTH
WERE AROUND LONG BEFORE YOU, AND STILL EXIST IN THE PRESENT TENSE; AND THUS
WHAT YOU MIGHT CONSIDER AS CLEVERNESS — SMART — POSSIBLY COMING AT GREAT
EXPENSE.
TOO MUCH WE SAY AND DO SHOULDN'T BE SAID AND DONE
DON'T BE A DEVIL, BUT ACT LIKE A SAINT, BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO ILL
OR EVIL, CLEVERNESS IT AIN'T
WHEN THE HAND TURNS TO ILL, IT'S CLEAR THE HEART'S UNWELL
DON'T LOOK AT LIFE THROUGH THE EYES OF ANGER OR HATE, LEST THEY SPOIL
YOUR HAPPINESS OR SEAL YOUR FATE
DON'T TAKE THE PATH THAT HURTS OR HARMS, BUT THE PATH OF KINDNESS
AND LOVING ARMS
THING'S ARE ONLY SEEN WHEN WE'VE THE EYES TO SEE
BEFORE YOU LOOK AT OTHERS, ALWAYS CLEAN YOUR OWN LENS
THE BEST UMBRELLA IS WISDOM
KEEP THE WONDER IN YOUR EYES, AND ASK A THOUSAND WHYS
VALUE DIFFERENT OPINIONS, BECAUSE EVEN WHERE THERE IS CHAFF
AMONGST THE WHEAT, THERE'S MUCH VALUE IN TRAVELLED FEET
THIS WORLD WOULD BE A NICER PLACE IF THERE WAS A SMILE ON EVERY FACE
YOU MAY BE ALIVE, BUT ARE YOU LIVING?
THE LIGHT IN MANY EYES IS SNUFFED BY THE DARKNESS IN MANY HEARTS
MISTREATMENT CARRIES ITS OWN PENALTY
MISTAKES ARE MISTAKES, BUT REGRET NOT SO FORGIVING
DEEP IS THE PAIN OF REGRET, AND YET, HOW OFTEN THAT SCENE WE SET
THE HANDS OF RESTRAINT HAVE PREVENTED MANY AN ILL
A MOMENT OF FOOLISHNESS, AN ERROR OF JUDGMENT, OR AN UNWISE CHOICE,
CAN LEAD TO A LIFETIME OF REGRET, AND THAT PROVERBIAL ECHOING VOICE
THINK QUICK WHERE YOU NEED TO, AND SLOWLY WHERE YOU DON'T
THOUGH YOU MAY MISS THE MARK, CONTINUE TO AIM FOR IT
BROKEN DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN UNFIXABLE, AND NOR DO WOUNDS
ALWAYS CONTINUE TO WEEP
WHETHER WE WEAR A SMILE OR NOT, DEPENDS ON OUR MENTAL CLOTHES
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF BECAUSE MAN CAN'T HELP HIMSELF
EVERY WORD AND ACTION REVEALS OUR HEART, AND ALL HOW WE PLAY OUR CONSTRUCTIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE PART
LOVE SAYS WHAT OTHERS DON'T AND WON'T, AND THE REASON
WHY IT DOES IS, BECAUSE IT SHOULD AND MUST
GIVEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ONE SHOULD EXERCISE DUE DILIGENCE
THE NAKED TRUTH NEVER KEEPS COMPANY WITH BAREFACED LIES
MAKE THE MOST OF THE MOMENT BECAUSE THE NEXT MOMENT
THAT MOMENT COULD BE GONE
TOO MANY SEEM TO WANT THE NAKED TRUTH COVERED WITH A GARMENT
OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING
IF LOVE SAW WHAT'S PASSING FOR ITSELF TODAY, IT WOULD BURY ITS
FACE AND RUN AWAY
THE CUNNING AND TRICKERY IN THIS WORLD IS JUST AS DANGEROUS
AS ANY ROGUE ARMY
TRIAL BY JURY DOESN'T MEAN ARMCHAIR ENTHUSIASTS
THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE IS NOT DECIDED BY EXCUSES, AND NOR IS
THERE ANY PERSON WHO CAN JUSTIFY ABUSES.
WAR MAY FORCE A RESULT, BUT IT NEVER PROVIDES AN ANSWER
WORRY'S A WORRY
PRIDE IS SOMETHING THAT SETS US UP
IN A WORLD LIKE THIS, NO ONE SHOULD BE LEFT TO FACE IT ALONE,
AND ALL WHY WE SHOULD VISIT OR PHONE
HELP THE WEAK BECOME STRONG, AND HELP THE STRONG BECOME TENDER
THE FRAGRANCE OF LOVE OUTSMELLS ANY FLOWER, AND ANY AROMA,
REGARDLESS OF ITS POWER
DON'T SPOIL A BEAUTIFUL DAY VIA AN UGLY ATTITUDE
TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE AT WAR WITH A WORLD OF THEIR OWN CREATION
THERE'S TWO SIDES TO EVERY TALE, AND ALL WHY ONE SHOULD MIND COME
SOMEONE'S WAIL
BEAR WITH THE STRUGGLER, BUT REBUKE THE SLOTH
TO RISE, WE MUST ASPIRE TO GREATER HEIGHTS
UNTIL THE WHOLE WORLD IS IN LOVE WITH LOVE, BULLETS WILL
STILL BE FIRED, AND BOMBS WILL STILL FALL FROM ABOVE
STOP WARRING, IT'S KILLING US!
THE RIGHT PATH WILL ALWAYS SERVE US WELL, BUT THE WRONG PATH
WILL ALWAYS BRING US ILL
LOVE WILL REWARD, BUT HATE WILL PUNISH
WE ALL LIKE TO THINK WE'RE RIGHT, AND YET CAN BE SO WRONG, AND ALL
WHY OPPOSITE VIEWS AND EXPRESSIONS CLEARLY BELONG
LOVE THAT ISN'T FULL AND COMPLETE, HAS NO THRONE BUT A COMMON SEAT
IF THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES, THE DAY HAS A THOUSAND EARS
WE CANNOT CHANGE FROM THE OUTSIDE IN, BUT ONLY FROM THE INSIDE OUT
EVERY PERSON HAS A NAME, NOT A NUMBER, AND ALL WHY LOVE, THOUGHT
AND CARE SHOULD NEVER BE ABSENT, NOR SEEN TO SLUMBER
THOSE WHO RULE WITH AN IRON FIST, ONCE IN THE GRAVE ARE NEVER MISSED
LIFE'S THE FRONT DOOR, DEATH'S THE BACK DOOR;
AND IN-BETWEEN, LOVE AND WAR
A SIMPLE TOY BRINGS LOTS OF JOY
TO LOVE IS TO LIVE, TO HATE IS TO DIE
MISTREATMENT IS A DEAD GIVEAWAY
HATE CASTS A SHADOW WHEREVER IT GOES
LOVE CAN ONLY DRIVE WHEN IT'S GIVEN THE KEYS
EVERY KIND WORD AND DEED IS A HEAVENLY SEED
IN THE MIDST OF SOMEONE'S PAIN, WORDS MAY MEAN NOTHING, BUT A LOVING
TOUCH EVERYTHING, AND HOW THEIR CONFIDENCE WE MIGHT GAIN
GOOD MEN HUNGER FOR PEACE AND RAIL AGAINST WAR, SO THAT
VIOLENCE MAY CEASE AND HARD HEARTS THAW
WHEN LEADERS INDULGE IN HYPOCRISY, PROPAGANDA AND FORCE, YOU KNOW
THAT THEY'RE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, BOTH ERRANT AND OFF COURSE
BULLYING AND PUNCHING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS THE
FORERUNNER OF TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION
THE COST OF INROADS INTO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS MORAL BANKRUPTCY
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS THE ENEMY OF AGENDAS, AND HENCE WHY
IT'S ALWAYS THE TARGET OF SUCH OFFENDERS
THE WORLD IS FOOLING US, THE ERRANT ARE SCHOOLING US, AND THE
CORRUPT ARE RULING US
OUR CHOICE OF PATH DETERMINES EVERYTHING, WHETHER WE'LL HAVE
CAUSE TO CRY OR REASON TO SING
TOO OFTEN LESSONS ARE ONLY LEARNT AFTER BRIDGES ARE BURNT
IF MY LIFE IS MINE, AND YOUR LIFE IS YOURS, YOU'VE NO RIGHT
TO TAKE MINE, AND I'VE NO RIGHT TO TAKE YOURS
LIVE FOR OTHERS, DIE TO SELF, AND TREAT ALL AS YOUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS
NOTHING GOOD COMES FROM NOTHING GOOD
WHAT
YOU MAY DO FOR OTHERS, OTHERS MAY NOT FEEL ABLE TO DO FOR YOU, SO DON'T
EXPECT, BUT JUST CONTINUE TO GIVE AND SHARE, AND LIFE WILL SOMEHOW
REWARD YOUR LOVING THOUGHT AND CARE
By Lance Landall
More quotes of my own, like those above, are scattered throughout my website.
YES, THERE ARE QUOTES AND THERE ARE QUOTES, THEY SERIOUS OR FUNNY, QUITE SOLEMN
OR SUNNY, AND VERY HANDY AT THE RIGHT TIME, WHETHER THEY DO OR DON'T RHYME, AND I
OFTEN QUOTING THEM MYSELF, YOU KNOW, EVEN CREATING A FEW, YOU KNOW, A QUOTE
WORTH A PARAGRAPH, GOOD FOR REFLECTING ON, OR SIMPLY A LAUGH, SO THERE YOU GO.
NOW, that next round of quotes inline with the same serious
and thought provoking side of my mission.
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what
worked with what sounded good. In area after area—crime, education, housing, race relations—the
situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that
this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
Thomas Sowell, American economist
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov.
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks
like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
Vance Havner (1901-1986)
The
strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its
spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market
economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement
of human life. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it
will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government
structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core
cannot stand.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
The
essence of modernity is the death of the spiritual. A modernist is
someone who is more concerned about air pollution than soul pollution.
A modernist is someone who wants clean air so he can breathe dirty
words. A modernist cares about big things, like whales, more than
little things, like fetuses.
Peter Kreeft
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of
nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace,
more about killing than we know about living.
Omar Bradley
Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals
or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God.
Ravi Zacharias
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised
morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality.
C.S.Lewis
To reject moral absolutes is in essence to affirm that there are no essential differences between
Mother Theresa and Hitler.
Dr Steve Kumar
Just
as the ancient empires of Greece and Rome collapsed when every
indulgence of the flesh took over, we in our society today need to heed
the warning.
Ruth Webb
There is no protection against the kinds of influences that are loose in a society that tolerates pornography.
Ted Bundy, serial sex murderer.
If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
Jay Leno, American comedian, actor, writer and producer.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence
in the end is rewarded.
Margaret Mead.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking which created them.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The field of psychology today is literally a mess. There are as many techniques, methods and theories
around as there are researchers and therapists.
Roger Mills, psychologist
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach
of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC-AD65)
The unexamined life
is not worth living.
Socrates
We look forward to the
time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will
our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladstone (1809-1898)
Evil means corrupt good ends.
Quaker pacifists, 1955 document
An evil act cannot be
justified by reference to a good
intention.
Thomas Aquinas
(1225-1274)
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr
(1929-1968)
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from
those
who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the
sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its
children.
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), American politician and Army general
Consider
the rights of others before your own feelings, and the
feelings of others before your own rights.
John Wooden (1910-2010)
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because
he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance
and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of
men.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
The
fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that
it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of
the silliness of the
majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish
than sensible.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
A people that values it's privileges above its principles
soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a
probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.
Hugh Latimer (1487-1555)
We don't determine truth by counting noses.
Dr Steve Kumar
The
high-minded man must care more for the truth than for
what people think.
Aristotle (385 BC-323 BC)
Most
of the trouble in the world is caused by people who want to be
important.
T.S.Eliot (1888-1965)
The scornful
nostril and the high head gather not the
odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Elliott (1819-1880)
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
An honest man, like true religion, appeals to the
understanding, or
modestly confides in the internal evidence of his conscience. The
imposter employs force instead of argument, imposes silence where he
cannot convince, and propagates his character by the sword.
The Letters Of Junius (1769-1771)
Truth never
envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time
enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the
truth
which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar (1897-1980)
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by
entering its prisons.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power
is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
John Milton (1608-1674)
Persecution,
whenever
it occurs, establishes only the power and cunning of the persecutor,
not the truth and worth of his belief.
H.M.Kallen
It has become a
settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed
by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more
firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to
overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that "the blood of
the martyrs is the seed of the church."
Albert Barnes (1798-1870)
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
An injustice committed against anyone
is a threat to everyone.
Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
Those who believe absurdities end up committing atrocities.
Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been
tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent
suffer.
Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
Condemn no man for not thinking as you think: Let every one
enjoy
the full and free liberty of thinking for himself: Let every man use
his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to
God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of
persecution. If you cannot reason or persuade a man into truth, never
attempt to force him into it. If love will not compel him to come in,
leave him to God, the Judge of all.
John Wesley (stated 1872)
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not
justice.
Desmond Tutu
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men
do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)
I know that most men can seldom accept even the most obvious truth if it would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
Once torture has become acclimatized in a legal system it spreads like an infectious disease. It saves the labour of investigation. It hardens and brutalizes those who have become accustomed to use it.
Sir William Holdsworth (1871-1944)
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.
Rick Warren
The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands
in times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say “This is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Right is its own defense.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Do not expect justice where might is right.
Plato (428 B.C. - 347 B.C.)
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on His side.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
George Crane (1901-1995)
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
Alan Barth (1906-1979)
In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.
E. T. Jaynes (1922-1998)
The great enemy of the truth, is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F Kennedy
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals -- the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned,
if at all.
Martin Gardner (1914-2010)
The deliberate torture of one human being by another is a sin against our Creator, in whose image we all have been created. This practice should not be condoned or allowed by any government. It must be condemned by all people of faith, wherever it exists, without exception.
Archbishop Demetrios, Primate, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
The use of torture is dishonourable. It corrupts and degrades the state which uses it and the legal system which accepts it.
Leonard Hoffmann
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
President Barack Obama
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Dalberg-Acton (1834-1902)
WE MAY NOT LIKE A FACT, BUT WE SHOULD ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGE A FACT
