"There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism."

-- John Carroll

#Responsibility Quotes #Evil Quotes #Woe Quotes

“Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.”
“Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.”
“all the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name ...”
“What did you say to Souness after the end of the final whistle?”
“As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.”
“The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.”
“All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.”
“There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.”

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