"Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing."

-- George Santayana

#War Quotes #Passion Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds ... It's still the greatest move I've ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.”
“Even genius is tied to profit.”
“The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.”
“Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.”
“Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.”
“The style is the man himself.”
“A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.”
“Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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