"The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat."

-- John Lanchester

#Democracy Quotes #Financial Quotes #Existential Quotes

“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.”

Source : "SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence". Book by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, 2000.
“So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.”
“Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.”
“None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.”
“All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.”

Source : Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”
“I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?”
“The people of Jesus' day thought holy men were unapproachable. But Jesus' work was in the marketplace. He made people feel welcome, and that they had a place. His life was a constant demonstration that there were only two things that really mattered in this life-God and people. They were the only things that lasted forever.”
“There's no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is to immediately start on a vegan diet.”

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