"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity."

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Source : Herbert Butterfield (1953). “Christianity, Diplomacy and War”, London : Epworth Press

Herbert Butterfield

#Self Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.”
“If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...”
“I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water”
“I think its really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.”

Source : Biography\Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”

Source : "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.
“Condoms should be marked in 3 sizes: jumbo, colossal and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small.”
“I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.”
“From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any "new force" or what not, directing the behavior of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.”

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