The vileness of the means begets the vileness of the result.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008). “Live Not by Lies.” 1974.
Monday 10 October 2022
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Monday 28 February 2022
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Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
Monday 21 February 2022
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Monday 14 February 2022
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Sin will take you further than you intended to go. It will keep you longer than you intended to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay.
Monday 7 February 2022
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The heresies that men do leave/
Are hated most of those they did deceive.
William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Monday 31 January 2022
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Remember when we were kids and we'd say, "I can't wait until I get older and can do whatever I want!" So, how's that working for you?
Monday 24 January 2022
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Righteousness that can be sold at a profit is always so much more attractive than righteousness that must be purchased by self-sacrifice.
Carl Truman
Monday 17 January 2022
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When we're talking about GDP per capita we're not talking about bigger houses, we're talking about fewer dead children.
Jerry Bowyer.
Monday 10 January 2022
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What is it that people miss so much that they devote a large proportion of our culture's artistic output to mourning its loss? God.
Peter S Williams. A Faithful Guide to Philosophy.
Monday 3 January 2022
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God does not reckon failures and victories the same way we do. Men often lose their souls while gaining the world, and they often gain their souls while apparently losing everything.
Douglas Wilson
Monday 27 December 2021
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When goodness, truth, and beauty are combined we have glory. When boundless goodness, total truth, and sublime beauty are combined in supreme degree, we have divine glory.
Richard Harries. Art and the Beauty of God: A Christian Understanding.
Monday 20 December 2021
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One views liberty as the freedom to do what we ought, while the other views liberty as the freedom to do what we want.
Monday 13 December 2021
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I am far less afraid of forms of power than I am of concentration of power. Kings whose scope of power is limited are less frightening than elected legislatures with no limits on what they can do.
Jerry Pournelle
Monday 6 December 2021
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If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.
David Green
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