#cons

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else. ↗

— Joseph P. Sekula

#debt #government #history #men

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort. ↗

— Rick Ross

#cult #deeper #effort #families #find

Ponder the affirmative. ↗

— Loretta Boyer McClellan

#inspirational-quotes #positive-thinking #inspirational

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#forgiveness #god #god-consciousness #mindful-of-god #piety

He wants a fifteen thousand pound settlement." "Fifteen thousand!" "He says you're a great deal of trouble." She hesitated for one startled moment before choking back a laugh. "I am." "I thought so." He leveled Drew a look. "If I pay you the fifteen thousand, do you swear to keep her?" Drew reared back his head. "Forever?" Her father scowled. "Forever." "Oh, I suppose." He gave a long-suffering sigh. "If I must." She bit the insides of her cheeks to keep from laughing outright. ↗

— Deeanne Gist

#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

Quoting Father Seraphim: Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#consciousness #death #life #death

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#englishman #first #life #lottery #prize

Most of us are not really so arrogant as to think we have a right to remold the world in our image. The best we can do, toward redeeming the states of Europe and Asia from the menace of revolution and the distresses of our time, is to realize our own conservative character, suspicious of doctrinaire alteration, respectful toward history, preferring variety over uniformity, acknowledging a moral order composed of human persons, not of mere political and economic atoms subservient to the state. We have not been appointed the correctors of mankind; but, under God, we may be an example to mankind. ↗

— Russell Kirk

#respect

That if a thing is defined in contrast that's what life is, the shadow of death. So the mystery of death couldn't be the bad thing, because without it there wouldn't be life. The badness was life, just happening, as essential a part of the good as the good. And what was there to do but to take it as it comes and to hope, to hope constantly and carnally and with no time to lose. ↗

— Brian McGreevy

#carnally #constantly #death #essential #life

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#conspiracy-theories #democracy #dictatorship #freedom #human-rights