"But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's multiple reaffirmations of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning - gets airbrushed out of the picture."

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Source : Source: eppc.org

George Weigel

#Mean Quotes #Judging Quotes #Filters Quotes

“I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?”
“Patriarchal life, youâ€™re out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!”
“A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.”

Source : "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.
“The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?”

Source : "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too" by David Horowitz, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 3, 2001.
“I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!”
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011
“Listening to Eric TaylorÂ is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes.”
“My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips.”

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