"The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle, the main goal must be to awaken peopleâ€™s consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.”

Source : Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.15, Arktos
“The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old enough to understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point... to help get it all straight. Should I tell you about your father? That's a tough one. Will it change your decision to send him here... knowing? But if you don't send Kyle, you could never be. God, you can go crazy thinking about all this... I suppose I'll tell you... I owe him that. And maybe it'll be enough if you know that in the few hours we had together we loved a lifetime's worth.”
“The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.”

Source : William Barclay (1999). “Good Tidings of Great Joy: The Birth of Jesus the Messiah”, p.36, Westminster John Knox Press
“Another last-minute, good-deed job,â€ Royce grumbled as he stuffed supplies into his saddlebag. â€œTrue,â€ Hadrian said, slinging his sword belt over his shoulder, â€œbut this is at least a paying job.â€ â€œYou should have told him the real reason we saved him from Trumbulâ€” because we wouldnâ€™t see the hundred tenents otherwise.â€ â€œThat was your reason. Besides, how often do we get to do royal contracts? If word gets around, weâ€™ll be able to command top salaries.â€ â€œIf word gets around, weâ€™ll be hanged.”

Source : Michael J Sullivan (2011). “Theft Of Swords: The Riyria Revelations”, p.138, Hachette UK
“The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.”

Source : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (1966). “Historical essays”
“There is an issue about the discrimination provisions because the Qur'an does say that women should have half the share of men. Again, in the seventh century perhaps that kind of made sense, but in the twenty-first it very often doesn't. But in the arbitration contract that won't arise. An inheritance dispute might arise after someone dies but the two sides have to come together consensually.”
“Grace cannot forgive unconfessed sin.”

Source : Rod Parsley (1993). “Repairers of the Breach”
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”

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