Fortune Quote #3200

The freedom to kill is not a real freedom, but a tyranny that reduces the
human being to slavery. -- Pope Benedict XVI

Fortune Quote #3199

Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite
their students to cross; then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully
collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. -- Nikos
Kazantzakis

Fortune Quote #3198

I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may
think of them. I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the
judgement of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavor to seek the truth
in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Yet I hold
that completely erroneous views should be shunned. -- Nicolaus
Copernicus

Fortune Quote #3197

Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty. Always
remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you
hate them, and then you destroy yourself. -- Richard Nixon

Fortune Quote #3196

[Mythology is] the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so
foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.
Hence the English adjective "mythical," meaning "incredible." --
Robert Graves

Fortune Quote #3195

It has been a constant irritant to radical feminists that women continue
to like men despite the feminists' best effors to dissuade them. --
Mona Charen

Fortune Quote #3194

In the war on poverty, poverty won. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3193

I would have little, if any, objection to the majority's decision in this
case if it were written as the report of the House Committee on Education
and Labor, but as an opinion ostensibly resting on the language of the
Constitution, I find it woefully deficient. -- Justice Hugo Black,
dissent from Golberg v. Kelly

Fortune Quote #3192

In our generosity we have created a system of hand-outs, a second-rate set
of social services which damages and demeans its recipients, and destroys
any semblance of human dignity that they have managed to retain though
their adversity. In the long run, welfare payments solve nothing, for the
giver or the receiver; free Americans deserve the chance to be fully
self-supporting. -- Robert Kennedy

Fortune Quote #3191

No lasting solution to the problem [of poverty] can be bought with a
welfare check. -- John F. Kennedy

Fortune Quote #3190

Continued dependence on relief induces a moral and spiritual
disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole
out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of
the human spirit. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fortune Quote #3189

Even I have trouble explaining to my family that we are not about killing
babies. -- Donna Brazile, manager of Al Gore's 2000 presidential
campaign

Fortune Quote #3188

Americans, at our best, value the life we see in one another, and must
always remember that even the unwanted have worth. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3187

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.
-- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3186

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the
ablest of men. -- Lord Acton

Fortune Quote #3185

Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to
discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think they were the first
to discover the horror of war. -- Mona Charen, "Useful Idiots"

Fortune Quote #3184

Innocence is a precious quality in children. It is less appealing in
adults. It is particularly unappealing when it is put in the service,
whether intentionally or not, of a deeply cynical and criminal enterprise
like the Soviet Union. -- Mona Charen, "Useful Idiots"

Fortune Quote #3183

...hothouse reasoning: huge and exotic blossoms of ratiocination that
could grow only in an environment protected from the slightest chill of
common sense. -- Michael Kinsey

Fortune Quote #3182

We do not distrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because
we distrust each other. -- Salvador de Madariaga, chairman of the
League of Nations Disarmament Commission

Fortune Quote #3181

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a
quarrel. -- Robert Frost

Fortune Quote #3180

Communism is not a reaction against the failure of the nineteenth century
to organize optimal economic output. It is a reaction against its
comparative success. It is a protest against the emptiness of economic
welfare, an appeal to the ascetic in us all. -- John Meynard
Keynes, 1934

Fortune Quote #3179

Indeed those of us who opposed the American war in Indochina should be
extremely humble in the face of the appalling aftermath: a form of genocide
in Cambodia and horrific tyranny in both Vietnam and Laos. --
William Shawcross

Fortune Quote #3178

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does
will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. -- Jean
Francois Revel

Fortune Quote #3177

I do not want to see the Democratic Party become a party which gives any
aid and comfort whatever to people who applaud Vietcong victories or wave
Vietcong flags. Our party has room for hawks and doves, but not for
mockingbirds who chirp gleefully at those who are shooting at American
boys. -- Senator Henry Jackson, 1972

Fortune Quote #3176

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay
any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose
any foe to ensure the survival and the success of liberty. -- John
F. Kennedy, 1961

Fortune Quote #3175

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need
for illusion is great. -- Saul Bellow

Fortune Quote #3174

...point by point Joe McCarthy got it all wrong and yet was still closer
to the truth than those who ridiculed him. -- Nicholas von Hoffman

Fortune Quote #3173

I urge you to beware the temptation of pride---the temptation blithely to
declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to
ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire,
to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove
yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.
-- Ronald Reagan, 1983

Fortune Quote #3172

It is better to be a live jackal than a dead lion---for jackals, not men.
Men who have the moral courage to fight intelligently for freedom have the
best prospects of avoiding the fate of both live jackals and dead lions.
Survival is not the be-all and end-all of a life worthy of man.... Man's
vocation should be the use of the arts of intelligence in behalf of human
freedom. -- Sidney Hook

Fortune Quote #3171

I do not believe in an end of history. The diversity of the world ensures
that there will always be argument and conflict. But I do believe that
there can be an end to lasting tyranny---that we can live in a world where
no regime that attempts to crush dissent will be tolerated. Just as the
institution of slavery has been all but wiped off the face of the earth, so
too can goverment tyranny become a thing of the past. -- Natan
Sharanksy, "The Case for Democracy"