#thou

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #friends #honor #love #our

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. ↗

— Aristophanes

#laws #lead #life #people #same

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists. ↗

— Dick Armey

#bothers #clinton #day #friends #hangs

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion. ↗

— Eberhard Arnold

#completion #every #god #help #mind

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#adorned #against #before #better #endowments

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#applies #body #cannot #fail #fear

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas? ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#freedom

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion. ↗

— Malcolm Arnold

#always #been #classical #classical music #enabled

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth! ↗

— Malcolm Arnold

#am #another #been #donald #expert