"There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation."

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Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

William Sloane Coffin

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“In America everyone's fast.”
“The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.”
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”

Source : "Against Empire". Book by Michael Parenti, May 1995.
“The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.”
“I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.”
“As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.”
“My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.”

Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark Q, pp. 207-208, 1732.

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