The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he… — Wesley Pruden 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
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity. — George Henry Lewes 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
For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman 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
“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and… — Mary Butts 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
