People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

Gary North

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

William Blake

It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.

Kristin Davis

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Ray Stannard Baker

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

Ang Lee

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.

Shirley Williams

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Claude Debussy

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After all, Saddam's ruling Ba'ath Party consolidated its power by first destroying the Iraqi communist and labor movements, and then turning on the Kurds (whose cause, historically, has been one of the main priorities of the Left in the Middle East). When I first became a socialist, the imperative of international solidarity was the essential if not the defining thing, whether the cause was popular or risky or not. I haven't seen an anti-war meeting all this year at which you could even guess at the existence of the Iraqi and Kurdish opposition to Saddam, an opposition that was fighting for 'regime change' when both Republicans and Democrats were fawning over Baghdad as a profitable client and geopolitical ally. Not only does the 'peace' movement ignore the anti-Saddam civilian opposition, it sends missions to console the Ba'athists in their isolation, and speaks of the invader of Kuwait and Iran and the butcher of Kurdistan as if he were the victim and George W. Bush the aggressor.

Christopher Hitchens

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

Woodrow Wilson

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Virginia Woolf