"Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things."

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Source : Source: reflections.yale.edu

Allan Boesak

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?”

Source : Thomas Powers (1982). “Thinking about the next war”, Alfred A. Knopf
“I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.”
“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
“"Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.”
“Don't be ashamed of being a woman and don't be ashamed to be an accomplished woman.”
“All war is based on deception.”
“All of science is largely formalized common sense.”

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