Clergyman's

The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.
— Sam Harris

It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
- Nelson Mandela

Two years before the war the then Government of Lord Oxford was confronted with an epidemic of strikes. The quarrel of one trade became the quarrel of all. This was the sympathetic strike...In the hands of one set of leaders, it perhaps meant no more than obtaining influence to put pressure on employers to better the conditions of the men. But in the hands of others it became an engine to wage what was beginning to be called class warfare, and the general strike which first began to be talked about was to be the supreme instrument by which the whole community could be either starved or terrified into submission to the will of its promoters. There was a double attitude at work in the same movement: the old constitutional attitude...of negotiations, keeping promises made collectively, employing strikes where negotiations failed; and on the other hand the attempt to transform the whole of this great trade union organization into a machine for destroying the system of private enterprise, of substituting for it a system of universal State employment...What was to happen afterwards was never very clear. The only thing clear was the first necessity to smash up the existing system. This was a profound breach with the past, and in its origin it was from a foreign source, and, like all those foreign revolutionary instances, it has been very largely secretive and subterranean. This attitude towards agreements and contracts has been a departure from the British tradition of open and straight dealing. The propaganda is a propaganda of hatred and envy.
- Stanley Baldwin

… as General Berringer would readily admit, “If you’re in a fair fight, I’ve done something wrong.
— T. Mountebank

The first step of obedience that any of you can take is to confess your sins to God before his witnesses.
- Ann Lee

…Novello should be extremely grateful that his innubile daughter was being taken off his hands by a Tasca.
- Anthony Burgess

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.
— Neal Stephenson