"Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established."

-- John Stuart Mill

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“Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.”
“Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”

Source : John Brown (1866). “Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter”, p.117
“It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].”
“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.”
“In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.”
“The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court.”
“Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.”

Source : Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.93
“It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.”

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