The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty. . . Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
If the truth conflicts with my beliefs, I change my beliefs.
There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by. . . truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.
When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't it, folks? You couldn't find a drink in the roaring 20's, could ya? See that's the problem with the banning thing! I say why stop there, let's not ban guns, I know, let's ban crime!
Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?
If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong. . . you'll know forever.
Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married. ]
She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so powerful, but that the world was so weak. It could be read, certainly, in its weakness, as on days when the sun baked fallen apples in orchards and the valley smelled like cider, and cold nights when Jordan had driven Chadds Ford for dinner and the tires of her Chevrolet had crunched on the gravel driveway; but the world was fungible only as images. Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
Any yellow, any blue, any red and a white are all I need.
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.