#gains

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#austere #constant #ever #government #learned

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#bank #being #call #civil #civil war

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#here #i #revolution #revolutionary #stand

The aims of life are the best defense against death. ↗

— Primo Levi

#aims #best #death #defense #life

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#about #bargains #bestowed #destruction #ever

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#also #anyone #capable #eagerly #else

The war on drugs is a war against the communities. ↗

— Holly Near

#communities #war #war on drugs

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#am #arrogance #been #broad #employ

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#anything #could #demonstrations #early #getting

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#forget #i #me #people #today