"The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hourâ€™s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth."

-- Rob Bell

#Risk Quotes #Gains Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude and one calculated not only to arouse all Scholastic philosophers and theologians but also to injure our holy faith by contradicting the Scriptures.”
“Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.”

Source : "Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice". "Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration", Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Tirana, 1978.
“Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall,”

Source : Antony Beevor (2003). “The Fall of Berlin 1945”, p.30, Penguin
“Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitlerâ€™s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”
“... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.”
“Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.”

Source : "Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey".
“Photography is about being exquisitely present.”

Source : Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz (2001). “Joel Meyerowitz”, Phaidon Press
“When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.”

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