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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude… — Lionel Blue
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused… — Conrad Black
- I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation… — Martin Chemnitz
- Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted… — John F. Kerry