"Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect."

-- Jo Brand

#Christian Quotes #Mean Quotes #Self Quotes

“Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.
“Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.”

Source : "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan".
“To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.”
“To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.”
“The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.”

Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 18, 1954.
“The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.”
“The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are the same. Through slightly different interpretations, they all think the same thing is going to happen, that the Earth is going to be perfected and that humans are going to do the work of perfecting it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.”

Source : "Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada". Book by Charles Dudley Warner, 1889.

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