QUOTATIONS
"Peace is liberty in tranquility." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion." ~ Proverbs 11:22
"It is often said that blood is thicker than water; but I say that honor and respect is thicker than blood." ~ Victor T. Stephens
"Was it a mistake and were you sorry before or after you were caught?" ~ Unknown
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them." ~ Louis Armstrong
"When the devil cannot stay us from a good work, then he laboureth by all means to make us proud of it." ~ Henry Smith
"How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause." ~ F.B. Meyer
"Emotionalism and zeal in the absence of discernment and truth leads to self-imposed blindness." ~ Victor T. Stephens
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." ~ Leo Tolstoy
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a superpower." ~ Unknown
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." ~ Giordano Bruno
"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error." ~ Benjamin Rush
"Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." ~ H.L Mencken
"My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me." ~ Democritus
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." ~ Ayn Rand
"Beware the fury of a patient man." ~ John Dryden
"He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great." ~ Herman Melville
"He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."
~ Charles Peguy
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." ~ Leo Tolstoy
"The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone." ~ Henrik Ibsen
"Freedom cannot be experienced when one becomes enslaved by the opinion of others." ~ Victor T. Stephens
"Integrity has no need of rules." ~ Albert Camus
"Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves." ~ Nathaniel Branden
"No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law." ~ Robert Heinlein
"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat."
~ Erich Fromm
"Historically...those who told the truth about a particular regime have been exiled, jailed, or killed by those in power whose fury has been aroused. To be sure, the obvious explanation is that they were dangerous to their respective establishments, and that killing them seemed the best way to protect the status quo. This is true enough, but it does not explain the fact that the truth-sayers are so deeply hated even when they do not constitute a real threat to the established order. The reason lies, I believe, in that by speaking the truth they mobilize the [psychological] resistance of those who repress it. To the latter, the truth is dangerous not only because it can threaten their power but because it shakes their whole conscious system of orientation, deprives them of their rationalizations, and might even force them to act differently. Only those who have experienced the process of becoming aware of important impulses that were repressed know the earthquakelike sense of bewilderment and confusion that occurs as a result. Not all people are willing to risk this adventure, lest of all those people who profit, at least for the moment, from being blind." ~ Erich Fromm
"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." ~ Elbert Hubbard
"Do not bite the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." ~ Aldous Huxley
"Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions."
~ Stanley Schmidt
"Thugism is the cowardly man's impression of strength and manhood -- - luxuriating as a legend in his own mind; a deluded soul that is incognizant of the distinction between rudeness and self-respect." ~ Victor T. Stephens
"The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company." ~ Seneca
"Thinking men cannot be ruled." ~ Ayn Rand
"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do." ~ Thomas Sowell
"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established." ~ Aristotle
"An atheist is a man with no invisible means of support." ~ John Buchan
"To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence. " ~ Walter S. Landor
"A person with a sharp tongue will eventually cut their own throat." ~ Unknown
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." ~ Upton Sinclair
"Some people cause happiness wherever they go. Others... whenever they go." ~ Unknown
"The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings --- it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing." ~ Ben Shapiro
"Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something." ~ Plato
"Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten." ~ Unknown
"It is far better to be alone than in bad company." ~ George Washington
"Some people will pretend to care just so they can get a better seat to watch your struggle. Every helping hand isn’t always there to help." ~ Unknown
"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there." ~ George Burns
"The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public." ~ George Jessel
"Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents." ~ Richard Armour
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
~ Ronald Reagan
“A skeptic once said to me, 'I don't believe the Bible because it has miracles.' I said, 'Name one.' He said, 'Turning water into wine. Do you believe that?' I said, 'Yeah, it happens all the time.' He said, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'Well, rain goes through the grapevine up into the grape, and the grape turns into wine. All Jesus did was speed it up a little bit.”
~ Norman L. Geisler
“Ronald Reagan once quipped, “I’ve noticed all those in favor of abortion are already born.” Indeed, all pro-abortionists would become pro-life immediately if they found themselves back in the womb.”
~ Norman L. Geisler
“you ought not judge” is itself a judgment! (Pluralists misinterpret Jesus’ comments on judging [Matt. 7:1-5]. Jesus did not prohibit judging as such, only judging hypocritically.)”
~ Norman L. Geisler
“Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God.” ~ James Tour
