You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.
Bob MarleyI’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.
Joel OsteenStatistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard ShawThe learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
PlatoAs human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Desmond TutuIt has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. ClarkeThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark TwainI think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.
Madeleine AlbrightWe all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee WilliamsIf it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William ShakespeareIt is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen HawkingToday was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Dr. SeussThe idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Richard P. FeynmanMost people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank ZappaBeware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard ShawWhen you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren BuffettWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George OrwellIf a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
Hermann HesseI could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
Anthony BourdainThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThose who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand RussellMost people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, ‚What can I do? I’m basically a victim.‘
Stephen CoveyIn the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Christopher HitchensNo one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
PlatoIt makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIn all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John MuirIf Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
Charles SpurgeonThere’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.
Joyce MeyerWe make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen KingIf you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.
Kevin GatesLack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard ShawInstead of judging people, we need to pray.
Joyce MeyerIt is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. FeynmanRegarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich NietzscheEven though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.
Joyce MeyerHe that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
John RuskinYou’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
Joe BidenI have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalThe world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.
Fidel CastroWhen I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‚I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,‘ and so forth, I switch off quite early.
Christopher HitchensHe knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard ShawA large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.
Jurgen KloppOpinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
PlatoThe momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis BaconIn some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert OppenheimerTo survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
George OrwellIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil GibranIf there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Noam ChomskyTherefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
AristotleMen blaspheme what they do not know.
Blaise PascalI was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
Kurt VonnegutDon’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.
Albert CamusChildren’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya AngelouI groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!
Charles SpurgeonIf you judge, investigate.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
Lou HoltzTo assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert CamusIf you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.
Abraham Maslow