"Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government."

-- Robert Briffault

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“The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.”
“From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers”
“In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.319, London, R. Bentley
“There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books
“We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.”
“Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.”
“Kim: "What, a coffee? Hollie, I have some bad news. I hate you, okay?" Hollie: "You hate everyone, Kim." Kim: "You're one of everyone.”

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