"The works of mercy are the opposite of……" — Dorothy Day
"The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war."
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Dorothy Day
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107 Quotes by Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day has 107 quotes on this site.
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of…
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What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed,…
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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
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It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions....
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and…
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When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.
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Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time…
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience…
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What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all…
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It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to…
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More Crops Quotes
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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
— Margaret Atwood
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
— Ansel Adams
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
— Tom Barrett
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
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The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family…
— Jim Bunning
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As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a…
— Jason Aldean
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I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over…
— Jason Aldean
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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on…
— Fred Allen
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You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses,…
— Jennifer Aniston
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When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all…
— Ronald Reagan
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