Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
It is always the secure who are humble.
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: