#ding

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#apology #attempt #being #condemnation #evil

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#each #faculties #his #needs

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

#art #bring #building #form #harmony

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

#art #building #dangerous #dealing #good

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#above #amazing #clouds #crooked #dangerous

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bicycle #hoping #i #like #long

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#easy #easy reading #hard #hard work #least

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#been #does #right-wing #things #understanding

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ↗

— Lord Acton

#carrying #democracy #elections #evil #force