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Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesteron

The vice of the modern notion of mental progress is that it is always something concerned with the breaking of bonds, the effacing of boundaries, the casting away of dogmas.

Progress | Vice |

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Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Blessings | Capitalism | Vice |

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John Climacus, fully Saint John Climacus, aka John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites

As long as anger lives, she continues to be the fruitful mother of many unhappy children.

Anger | Children | Mother |

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Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

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Os Guiness

For the seeker, contrast is the mother of clarity.

Contrast | Mother |

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W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Sensuality is the vice of young men and of old nations.

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Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

For governing a country well thee is nothing better than moderation. The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way. Nothing is impossible for him. Because he has let go, he can care for the people’s welfare as a mother cares for her child.

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Laurenti Magesa

The worst type of sin, in fact the only “mortal sin” which has enslaved man for the greater part of history, is the institutionalized sin. Under the institution, vice appears to be, or is actually turned into, virtue. Apathy toward evil is thus engendered; recognition of sin becomes totally effaced; sinful institutions become absolutized, almost idolized, and sin becomes absolutely moral.

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Robert M. Linder, fully Robert Mitchell Linder

Supported by the authority of all institutions, parenthood has come to amount to little more than a campaign against individuality. Every father and every mother trembles lest an offspring, in act or thought, should be different from his fellows; and the smallest display of uniqueness in a child becomes the signal for the application of drastic measures aimed at stamping out that small fire of noncompliance by which personal distinctness is expressed. In an atmosphere of anxiety, in a climate of apprehension, the parental conspiracy against children is planned.

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Leon Shenendoah, elected Tadodaho, aka Chief Leon Shenendoah

These are our times and our responsibilities. Every human being has a sacred duty to protect the welfare of our Mother Earth, from whom all life comes. In order to do this we must recognize the enemy -- the one within us. We must begin with ourselves.