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It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
- Ben Stein
For me to bully anybody, that sounds unbelievable.
- Donovan McNabb
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
- St. Basil
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
- St. Augustine
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
- William James
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi
In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.
- Paulo Coelho
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
- Ravi Zacharias
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Cicero
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
- Malcolm X