"Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers."

-- Joss Whedon

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.”
“Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.”
“In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.”
“We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.”

Source : Frithjof Schuon (1981). “Esoterism as Principle and as Way”, Sophia Perennis
“Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.”
“If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or legislation; but by fathers and mothers exerting a moral influence and example in their own families, tempered with love and understanding.”

Source : J. Spencer Kinard (1976). “The worth of a smile: spoken words for daily living”, Prentice Hall
“Donâ€™t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
“Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

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