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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder."

Source : Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.”

Source : Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.148, Hachette UK
“I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.”
“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”
“I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love.”
“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
“One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.”
“Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!”

Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.”

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