"Where are the heroes and the saints, who……" — Dorothy Day
"Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for 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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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick…
— Julia Child
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
— Horace Mann
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent…
— Ronald Reagan
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Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while,…
— Melody Beattie
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some…
— John Jay Chapman
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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the…
— Eric Hoffer
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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those…
— Mark Twain
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