Quotes Part I
I collect quotes wherever I can find them. Often I can attribute them but often I can't.
Secular
One of the problems with being a pessimist is that you can never celebrate when you are proven right. – Thomas Sowell
In a time of tyranny, speaking the Truth is a revolutionary act.
Utterly true.
As the poker player said: “If you’ve been at the table for 30 minutes and don’t know who the sucker is, it’s you.” I love cards, all sorts; but never play for money.
Political correctness is the speech of those who are terrified by what might happen if they were told the truth. – Fr. George Rutler
"Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains" (Shine, Perishing Republic, 1941) Robinson Jeffers http://www.poemhunter.com/robinson-jeffers/biography/
As Captain Peter Quincy Taggart says (will say?), "Never give up; never surrender."
Speaking of "corruption"
The ironic thing about Lenin is that his remains outlived the state that he created. – “Supercollider" A blog commentator quote that I just love.
John Greenleaf Whittier, “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
The problem with lying is that eventually, you believe your own falsehoods. Or at least remember with total recall everything you ever said!
"If there is no truth, cannibalism is simply a matter of taste." – Leo Strauss
Brilliant. Just ar fheabhais.
G.K. Chesterton once said, “Children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
Gilbert and Dr Johnson represent the best of the English nation, them and Chaucer. They're in Heaven holding forth at a coffee shop, for sure.
Religious
The Old Testament is the New concealed; the New is the Old revealed. - Augustine
"Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty." -- St. Thomas Aquinas
The ecclesial crisis in which we find ourselves today depends in great part upon the collapse of the liturgy. – Benedict XVI How wise is (or was) Josef Ratzinger? Karol Wojtyla could never figure this out, that's how wise. We really need to find out what brought Benedict XVI to his wretched "internal exile".
“We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.” – St. Catherine of Siena
We need ya, Katie, we need ya.
Pastoral charity demands truth.
One would think. But wow, is it rare in the Church today.
Queen Christina of Sweden, having abdicated her throne to become a Catholic, wrote to a friend: “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”
“It’s a universal law – intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas a truly profound education breeds humility.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Sure, were living in the Kingdom of Ignorance, then, today.
Positivism, the denial of an objective reality, must lead ultimately to authoritarianism. If there is no objective reality, there is no need for any rules that regard it; any notion of a Rule of Law is meaningless. This is the key to modernity and modernism, Positivism and it's philosophical counterpart Nominalism are the ultimate evil. For if everything is only what we say it is, then the person with the power to influence people into thinking something is the way he think it is, can reconstruct reality to fit his wishes. – Anonymous
Tradition can survive only in a traditional society, a society that reveres its own heritage. – Peter Kwasniewski
Sin a chuid seo an fírinne, go díreach slán!
An Préachán
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