The quote thread.
RBeckom
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There are two kinds of Christian morals, one private and the other
public.
These two are so distinct, so unrelated, that they are no more akin to each other than are archangels and politicians.
During three hundred and sixty-three days in the year the American citizen is true to his Christian private morals, and keeps undefiled the nation's character at its best and highest; then in the other two days of the year he leaves his Christian private morals at home and carries his Christian public morals to the tax office and the polls, and does the best he can to damage and undo his whole year's faithful and righteous work.
Without a blush he will vote for an unclean boss if that boss is his party's Moses, without compunction he will vote against the best man in the whole land if he is on the other ticket.
Every year in a number of cities and States he helps put corrupt men in office, whereas if he would but throw away his Christian public morals, and carry his Christian private morals to the polls, he could promptly purify the public service and make the possession of office a high and honorable distinction.
These two are so distinct, so unrelated, that they are no more akin to each other than are archangels and politicians.
During three hundred and sixty-three days in the year the American citizen is true to his Christian private morals, and keeps undefiled the nation's character at its best and highest; then in the other two days of the year he leaves his Christian private morals at home and carries his Christian public morals to the tax office and the polls, and does the best he can to damage and undo his whole year's faithful and righteous work.
Without a blush he will vote for an unclean boss if that boss is his party's Moses, without compunction he will vote against the best man in the whole land if he is on the other ticket.
Every year in a number of cities and States he helps put corrupt men in office, whereas if he would but throw away his Christian public morals, and carry his Christian private morals to the polls, he could promptly purify the public service and make the possession of office a high and honorable distinction.
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Adam was but human--this explains it all.
He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
There is each as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each as he really is. Times two.
Jane Austen
Henry Fielding
Touche.
Finally A counter quote.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
C.S. Lewis
Oscar Wilde
What are we in the infinite universe?
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
H. G. Wells
Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?
. . .
So Man, who here seems principal alone,
Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown,
Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal:
'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Then say not Man's imperfect, Heaven in fault;
Say rather Man's as perfect as he ought;
His knowledge measured to his state and place;
His time a moment, and a point his space:
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle I, Verse II
Here here concider it done good sir.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit, touch it and the bloom is gone.
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.
Education produces no effect whatsoever.
If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
Oscar Wilde
A wise man knows whether or not to say it.
Rudyard Kipling