Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.
Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.
When an unconquered country is conquered, people are killed. . . . That the beloved of the Gods finds very pitiful and grievous. . . . If anyone does him wrong, it will be forgiven as far as it can be forgiven. . . . The beloved of the Gods considers that the greatest of all victories is the victory of righteousness.
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.
He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.
If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again.
O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.
Evolution has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort to refute all religious claims concerning a creator - an effort that has also often attempted to suppress all scientific criticisms of Darwin's work.