top of page
.png){kind=small}
"For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts. To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired men; that slavery, polygamy, wars of conquest and extermination were right, and that there was a time when men could win the approbation of infinite Intelligence, Justice, and Mercy, by violating maidens and by butchering babes."
Standard
Customized
More
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."
Author Name
Personal Development
"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
Author Name
Personal Development
"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
Church
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
Education
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
Nature
"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."
Man
"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds."
Cloud
"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."
Belief
"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven."
Men
"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."
Truth
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
Being
"Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almost imperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconscious growth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old has been almost abandoned, almost lost in the new."
Belief
bottom of page