Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The problem with writing what amounts to affirmation literature exclusively for the already-convinced is that your critical faculties tend to atrophy. When you never have to analyze opposing arguments, apply consistent standards, or consider how your moral framework should constrain your own ideological side, you get lazy. — Jeff Childers
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." — Isaac Asimov
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe. But the axe was clever and told them because his handle was wood, he was one of them. — Unknown
At the dawn of the giving of the Law, a sign was given in Egypt: water turned to blood. At the dawn of the ministry of grace in Christ, a sign was given in Cana: water turned into wine. The blood of bulls and goats could never take away sins, but the blood of grapes represents that blood shed once for all that removes the guilt of sin forever.
...For we offer prayer for the safety of our princes to the eternal, the true, the living God, Whose favor, beyond all others, they must themselves desire. They know from Whom they have obtained their power, they reflect upon the extent of their power and so they come to understand the highest; they acknowledge that they have all their might from Him against Whom their might is nought. — Tertullian, c. A.D. 150-220
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast. — Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2
This is the captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise…Death has little meaning to us. If it has none to you then attack us. It's easy to push a button…We grow annoyed at your foolishness. — Star Trek The Original Series character Captain James T. Kirk (portrayed by Mr. William Shatner) in the episode "The Corbomite Maneuver."
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