"What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards."

-- Alexander Pope

#Blood Quotes #Coward Quotes #Ancestry Quotes

“I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.”
“Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.”
“People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you donâ€™t.”
“The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.”
“The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul. And as religion fades so will freedom, for only where the spirit of God is, is there liberty.”
“When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid color structure, you have to have a solid development in values, dark and light. Second, if you have a good design, don't leave it if you fail to render it to its full extent the first time around. Remember it's the design that's important. Try and try till you get the thing to work. That's why The Pattern Makers is a key picture in my painting career.”
“Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!”
“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.”

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