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Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us to-day... The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.
Birth | Body | Earth | Enjoyment | Guarantee | Heart | Human nature | Individual | Liberty | Men | Mind | Nature | Observation | Order | Peace | Purpose | Purpose | Restraint | Soul | Study | Teach | Wickedness | Will | World |
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
I never openly declared my love, but if looks could speak, the dumbest could have noted that the trial had me upset.
Will |
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
Incomparably beyond, and above us all! Whether still on earth or now in heaven her spirit is at home with God!
This perversion of the ethical values soon crystallized into the all-dominating slogan of the Communist Party: THE END JUSTIFIES ALL MEANS. Similarly in the past the Inquisition and the Jesuits adopted this motto and subordinated to it all morality. It avenged itself upon the Jesuits as it did upon the Russian Revolution. In the wake of this slogan followed lying, deceit, hypocrisy and treachery, murder, open and secret. It should be of utmost interest to students of social psychology that two movements as widely separated in time and ideas as Jesuitism and Bolshevism reached exactly similar results in the evolution of the principle that the end justifies all means. The historic parallel, almost entirely ignored so far, contains a most important lesson for all coming revolutions and for the whole future of mankind.
Beginning | Men | Patriotism | World |
With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
I just clipped two articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop five pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a six-minute pecan pie.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
I've got to bring out the big ammunition on sex education. The bra and girdle section of Sears just isn't doing it.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!
Estelle R. Ramey, born Stella Rosemary Rubin
Now, I like testosterone. Every home should have some. But it becomes damaging as a man gets older. I'm trying to help men live longer, although I'm not sure all of them deserve it.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.
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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
It was dark now as it becomes dark quickly after the sun sets in September. He lay against the worn wood of the bow and rested all that he could. The first stars were out. He did not know the name of Rigel but he saw it and knew soon they would all be out and he would have all his distant friends. 'The fish is my friend too,' he said aloud. 'I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
Good | Little | Man | Men | People | Sound | Talking | Time | Waiting |
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.
Woman |
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
Look very small those obstacles which seemed a very big day.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
She was sitting up now. My arm was around her and she was leaning back against me, and we were quite calm. She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things,