[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious naturethis is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Herbert Spencer

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Nancy Pelosi

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

Albert Guerard

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Edmund Burke

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.

G. W. F. Hegel

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

John Rawls

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Hugo Ball

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Julien de la Mettrie, The Human

Love and lordship hate companions

Benjamin Franklin

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

John Shelby Spong