"Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists."

-- Gore Vidal

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Passion Quotes

“How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?”

Source : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1902). “Success”
“I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care, many forever maimed with life-altering wounds. It made a strong impression because wounded men and body bags come back to home districts, not Washington, D.C., and accordingly, there is no more sacred vote than those surrounding war where life hangs in the balance.”

Source : "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.
“I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.”
“The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”
“You have to really be careful with what you see and read because you can't believe it all.”
“A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.”
“One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.”

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