"Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy otherwise. But after he began voicing critical remarks about the war and concerned comments about the poor, he was assassinated."

-- Michael Parenti

#War Quotes #Political Quotes #Church Quotes

“Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.180, Read Books Ltd
“Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.”
“When you begin to give value to the world, somehow the people you affect will find a way to tell you. Even if it takes a couple of years.”
“Emotion is contagious.”
“If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.”
“The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.”
“He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.”
“Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.”

Source : Speech at Fernbank, London, February, 1972.

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