If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Michael C. Cahill

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Ignazio Silone

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The Lord being the author both of mirth and gravity, is it not lawful in itself for the truth to use either of these ways, when the circumstances do make it lawful?

Martin Marprelate

Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

Al Gore

Villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged...Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we must continually pay.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

Ingrid Newkirk

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Thor Heyerdahl

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Thomas J. Watson

I hope I die before I get old.

Roger Daltrey

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell