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Quotes

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

George Orwell

The enemy of a love is never outside . . . it’s what we lack in ourselves.

Anaïs Nin

When charity for others is imposed by force, people are denied the benefits of carrying the entire responsibility of compassion on their own shoulders. In this they are robbed of one of life’s grandest and most gratifying experiences possible.

Paul Skousen

Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

Benedict XVI

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.

Émile Cammaerts

When schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (and traditional) response is to add manpower. Like dousing a fire with gasoline, this makes matters worse, much worse.

Fred Brooks

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy. Amen.

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Hutchins

Truth enlightens man’s intelligence and shapes his freedom.

John Paul II

Remind professional pacifists who have accepted the paralyzing peace propaganda of the Communists that the same Jesus who taught "love thy enemy" never advocated surrendering to him.

W. Cleon Skousen

There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.

Margaret Thatcher

‘Sola scriptura’ reduces the Bible to a riddle that no one can interpret with certainty because each person can only rely on his or her fallible understanding of the sacred text.

Jimmy Seghers

If after ten minutes at the poker table you do not know who the patsy is, you are the patsy.

Unknown

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Frederick Douglass

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The world is more threatened by those who tolerate and encourage evil than by the evildoers themselves.

Albert Einstein

Few institutions in our society are in a more unsatisfactory state than schools. Few generate more discontent or can do more to undermine our liberty.

Milton Friedman

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that . . . the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to . . . excite their most violent conflicts.

James Madison

One source of atmospheric pollution is the carbon dioxide that we all exhale. We could stop that very simply. But the cost would clearly exceed the gain.

Milton Friedman