The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.