Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Hamilton , US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 – 1804)
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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? Great short quote and quotation by: Artemus Ward , US humorist (1834 – 1867)
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? Great short quote and quotation by: Artemus Ward , US humorist (1834 – 1867)
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. Great short quote and quotation by: William Lloyd Garrison , US abolitionist & editor (1805 – 1879)
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With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. Great short quote and quotation by: William Lloyd Garrison , US abolitionist & editor (1805 – 1879)
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Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to […]
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Great short quote and quotation by: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet , Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)
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[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. Great short quote and quotation by: Lynn White, Jr., “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”, Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203-1207. ,
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