January 2011
“There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy...”
– Alabama Governor-Elect Robert Bentley speaking at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. Source: David White, “Gov.-elect Robert Bentley intends to be governor over all, but says only Christians are his ‘brothers and...
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“Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, Dec. 11, 1964.
“Pleasure, scarcely in one instance, is ever able to reach ecstasy and rapture;...”
– David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), part X. Text available at Wikisource.
“Where then is evil? What is its origin? How did it steal into the world? What is...”
– St. Augustine, Confessions 7.5, tr. R.S. Pine-Coffin (NY: Penguin, 1961), p. 138. Original text (from Stoa.org): ubi ergo malum et unde et qua huc inrepsit? quae radix eius et quod semen eius? an omnino non est? cur ergo timemus et cavemus quod non est? aut si inaniter timemus, certe vel timor ipse...
“Ick kann jar nich soville fressen, wie ick kotzen möchte.”
– Reportedly uttered by Max Liebermann, German impressionist, Jan. 30, 1933, upon seeing the Nazi victory parade through Berlin after the National Socialist seizure of power. Quoted in Wikipedia. Translation: “I can’t even eat as much as I’d like to vomit.”
“These people who think they are better than us, they look down on us every...”
– Republican Jesse Kelly, who ran against Gabrielle Giffords in 2010, speaking at a campaign rally. Source: Sam Dolnick, Katharine Q. Seelye, and Adam Nagourney, “In Giffords’s District, a Long History of Tension,” The New York Times (January 10, 2011).
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