"Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community."

-- Jacques Maritain

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“I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor”

Source : "Even Paranoids Have Enemies" by Norman Horowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2007.
“The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.”
“Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.”
“It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.”
“We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.”
“I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.”
“The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]”
“The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.”

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