- We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own
iniquities.
- In order to see Christianity, one must forget almost all the Christians.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881) "Amiel's Journal" (1883)... - A belief is not true because it is useful. -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
- Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and
hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.
-- Anacharsis (c. 600 BCE) quoted in Pluta... - Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) "Summa Theologica... - All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
--John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)... - Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs--statistically
speaking the most powerful.
Hanna Arendt, in the New Yorker, 28 Nov. 1977... - Good laws, if not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
-- Aristotle (384-322 BCE) "Nicomachean Ethics" IV,8,1294a,4... - The intention makes the crime. -- Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
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