Able Quote by Rebecca West

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

— Solomon

“There is no virtue in concealment. When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may…

— M.T. Anderson

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The crimes of others are a secret language among us. Through them we show ourselves what we might be capable of, after all.”

— Margaret Atwood

“To deny the individual agency of those caught up in the system – their capacity to overcome seemingly impossible odds – would be to…

— Michelle Alexander

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they…

— William Godwin

“Our responsibility before God is an inalienable aspect of our human dignity. Its final expression will be on the day of judgment. Nobody will…

— John Stott

“Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by…

— Albert Schweitzer

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For…

— Solomon

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

— Anonymous

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

— Philip Sidney