Today Quotes
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Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.Thomas Paine
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.St. Francis of Assissi
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.Franklin D. Roosevelt
So long as there are men there will be wars.Albert Einstein
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.Bertrand Russell
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.Erasmus
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think; therefore I am.Rene Descartes
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.Herman Melville, Moby Dick