The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Ted Olson

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.

Thomas Szasz

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

George McGovern

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believe in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

John Green

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

Plato

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

Albert Einstein

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Kurt Vonnegut

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

Eddie Van Halen

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton