The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965
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If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCI am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbCasting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCGod never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944