"The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion."

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Lord Hailsham

#Religious Quotes #Passion Quotes #Honest Quotes

“Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.”
“This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible.”
“While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue.”

Source : "Miers Withdraws Nomination". www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2005.
“If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
“If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”
“Half of tradition is a lie.”
“Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.”

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