And I quote...

[ER]

"It's Amateurs Like You Who Give Kidnapping A Bad Name!"
--Wednesday Addams

(Amen, sister, amen...)

[ER]

"How awful goodness is."
---John Milton
Paradise Lost

[Rev. Powell]

"Any [political] theory which is obviously dishonest and immoral ('realistic' is the favorite word at this moment) will find adherents who accept it for just that reason. Whether the theory works, whether it attains the result aimed at will hardly be questioned. The mere fact that it throws ordinary decency overboard will be accepted as proof of its grown-upness and consequently of its efficacy."--George Orwell

[Rev. Powell]

"No doubt alcohol, tobacco and so forth are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid."--George Orwell

[indianasmith]

"I'm more underwear than man now."  - Braeden S., one of my students, after getting a wedgie from a classmate.

[lester1/2jr]

Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.  Psalm 127:1

[indianasmith]

"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Those who prevent you from learning history WANT to repeat it!"  - seen on Instagram

[Rev. Powell]

[Rev. Powell]

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."--Edmund Burke

[LilCerberus]

[Rev. Powell]

It's true. But ironically, the quote makes him appear convinced of his own moral superiority: HE offers facts and analysis, those who disagree with his conclusions are the ignorant unwashed failing to heed his mighty wisdom. It's a paradox.

[indianasmith]

"You say I have no power here, and that may be true.  But to say dreams have no power in Hell?
Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar - what power would Hell hold over those imprisoned here if they were not free to dream of heaven?"

    - Neil Gaiman  THE SANDMAN

[Rev. Powell]

"There could be a happy world, where cooperation was more in evidence than competition, and monotonous work is done by benevolent and beneficent machines, where what is lovely in nature is not destroyed to make room for hideous machines whose sole business is to kill, and where to promote joy is more respected than to produce mountains of corpses. Do not say this is impossible: it is not. It waits only for men to desire it more than the infliction of pain. There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere."— Bertrand Russell, Last Essay: 1967 (his last written words)

[lester1/2jr]

"...And he took him, and withdrew, and spoke three sayings to him. When Thomas came back to his friends they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?" Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and devour you."

from The apocryphal Gospel Of Thomas

[lester1/2jr]