Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Gottfried Leibniz

In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus. Now he has a unique chance to prove that he meant it seriously: for him, as for all Americans today, Love thy neighbor! means Love the Muslims! OR IT MEANS NOTHING AT ALL.

Slavoj Zizek

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Dolley Madison

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

Giambattista Valli

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

C.S. Lewis

This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or injury to others, a man obtains a proper rule of action by looking at his neighbor as himself.

The Mahabharta

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bianca Jagger

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Oliver Cromwell

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Samuel Dash

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce