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- I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry…
- All religions and cultures suffer from sources that preach hate against the 'other.' Throughout history some have, tragically, practiced what their sources preached, while some…
- Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others…
- We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United States of America…
- Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If…
- Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the state…
- Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
- We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions…
- All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
- I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.
- Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer,…
- Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should…
- Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain…
- It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
- Well you know, all law is about injustice.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle