376 quotes found
“Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war.”
“Peace with non-fundamentalists terrifies the fundamentalist because to them, being Christian doesn't mean just being 'good' - it means being 'better' than others. Being better that others means hav...”
“How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends.”
“In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.”
“If you don't follow Christ or love others in the way Christ said, and let yourself be bogged down instead with fearfulness, hatred, violence and the persecution of others - HOW can you call yoursel...”
“It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testament laws - because they fundamentally reject Christ as the New Covenant - which replaced all that.T...”
“The hatred the 'Christian' right wing harbors for the SA Constitution is not htere because of an absence of 'God' in state machinery and the excised phrase 'in humble submission to almighty God' - ...”
“What i know from history is this: Those who do not appreciate their freedom and aren't prepared to protect it, will lose it.”
“Freedom is being whole on my own and not needing somebody else to complete me.”
“Because freedom and liberty and equality are as vital as breath, we only notice their absence when we are left gasping when the colors of diversity and individual liberty are drained from the world...”
“It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it.”
“Freedom isn't hard to lose - but it's a hard thing to win back once it's been lost.”
“There are many different forms of family and there is in fact NO 'the' family.The basic building block of any close relationship - and thus any family - is LOVE.”
“An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be called a plan. He loathed the alien for attacking them, without any provocation. He hated the way it ...”
“As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running through her already agitated mind. From the very beginning of their association, shed had a bad fe...”
“Its a general rule a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had to respond to distress calls. Unless of course it places their own lives in danger. Bearing this thoug...”
“Something clicked inside Ortez mind, like the bolt of a door latch being released. Mans first encounter with sentient alien life was a disaster called the Gimp War in the history books. The aliens ...”
“Half-Lieutenant Marshk Klussta was not a happy man. Naturally, that didnt bother him as things were rarely otherwise. As the commanding sub-officer of the Black Sunrise, happiness was not a state o...”
“The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ferried the cream of society across the void in opulence and style. Only the wealthiest could aff...”
“What the hell was that? he asked no-one in particular. Did they ram us?Uh negative, sir. Marnetti offered, reading an instrumental assessment from his display, It seems we were hit by some kind of...”
