“When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means… — Pearl Abraham Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as articulus stantis vel cadentis ecclesiae—the article of faith that decides whether the… — James Robert White Copy Share Image
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Throughout history, religious differences have divided men and women from their neighbors and have served as justification for some of humankind's bloodiest… — Prince Hassan bin Talal Copy Share Image
Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939… — Donald Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations… — Ebenezer Erskine Copy Share Image
“Now the valley cried with anger, "Mount your horses draw your sword." And they killed the mountain people, so they won their… — Dennis Lambert Copy Share Image
There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
“One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As a party of labor, the SPD must work together with the unions to ensure that people can make a living with… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image