Notable Quotable 317

Aug 19, 2024

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot.

- James Bladwin

Reprehensible ideas don’t disappear if you make them illegal, by driving them under the carpet you might feed them, or make them taboo.

- Salman Rushdie

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

- Robert H. Jackson

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

- C. S. Lewis

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

- Alan Watts, The Book

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

- Frederick Douglass

The palace of Herod lies in ruins, but the cave of the Child of Bethlehem remains. The crowns of the caesars have been lost, but the bones of the martyrs have been preserved. The palaces of the pagan kings have been transformed into piles of stone and dust, but the caves of the ascetics have grown into most beautiful churches. The golden idols have been scattered into nothing, but the chains of the Apostle Peter are preserved as a holy relic. The powerful Roman Empire is now only a tale of the dead, while the hut of Christianity, the Holy Church, is today the most powerful realm in the world. Where are the Jews, the murderers of God? They are dispersed throughout the world. Where are the powerful Romans? In the grave. Where is the power of bloody Nero? Where is the power of the evil Diocletian and the depraved Maximian? Where is the success of Julian the Apostate? Where are those high towers? They are where the tower of Babel is--beneath dust and ashes, beneath shame and damnation.

- St. Nikolai Velimirovic

Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.

- Aberjhani

There have always been some forms of religion in the world and wicked men who opposed them... Never before has there been a sacrilegious conspiracy of every human talent against its Creator... Men of this age have prostituted genius to irreligion and, according to the admirable phrase of Saint Louis on his deathbed, 'They have waged war against God with His own gifts.'

- Joseph de Maistre

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

- Tony Benn