#mon

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#burning #demonic #get #heretics #need

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. ↗

— William Beveridge

#common man #glory #government #happiness #man

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#business #common #equally #gets #good

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#counting #easy #folks #form #me

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#football #golf #golf course #homeless #housing

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. ↗

— Joe Biden

#common #community #individualism #long #over

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money! ↗

— Joe Biden

#government #i #make #money #supposed

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bestow #common #common sense #destitute #favors

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #her #invisible #namely #patron

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#matrimony #particularly #similarity #taste #tastes