The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
The arbitrary division between church and state. . . is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk. . . may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.
Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.