"In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity."

-- Frederic C. Howe

#War Quotes #Taken Quotes #Men Quotes

“These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to treat them with mere indifference and contempt. If not true they are little else than the pretensions of a bold imposture, which not satisfied with having already enslaved millions of the human race, seeks to continue its encroachments upon human liberty, until all nations be subjected under its iron rule.”

Source : Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications
“Love is the only effective counter to death.”
“Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.”
“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.”
“Flowers are like visible messages from God.”

Source : Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.191, The Floating Press
“It's really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today.”
“That was an important thing to learn - the more preparation you do the more a subject will respect you. But also, the more you'll think about what the real story is.”
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.”

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