I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—”… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference,… — Leopold Hartley Grindon Copy Share Image
