#pre

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#hate #jainism #love #sympathy #thought

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#constitutional #constitutional amendment #extreme #failure #fuel

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#ages #idea #interesting #interesting thing #makes

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. ↗

— Alexander Meiklejohn

#arising #dangers #foolish #freedom #gains

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual. ↗

— Gary North

#christ #commander #few #few people #his

I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#i #individual #nothing #outing #people

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#knew #me #most #nothing #open

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. ↗

— James Mill

#bad #cannot #good #how #known

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008) ↗

— George W. Bush

#oval-office #president #leadership

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#analysis #answer #barbarian #behaviour #clear