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Monday 5 February 2018

Quotes 6 Feb

Economic problems never start with economics. They have much deeper roots in human nature. - Margaret Thatcher to the Conservative Party Conference, 1975 in The Mighty and the Almighty by Nick Spencer p1

We are all members one of another ... in the concept of the Church on earth,the Body of Christ ... we learn or interdependence ... and the great truth  that we do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society. - Margaret Thatcher, speech at St Lawrence Jury, London, 30 mar 1978 in The Mighty and the Almighty by Nick Spencer p3

In the more sober years of our fathers, men had 
something better to live for than silly sports. 
     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) 
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 34 [1888] 

The one nice thing about sports is that they prove men 
do have emotions and are not afraid to show them. 
     --Jane O'Reilly 
      _The Girl I Left Behind_ [1980] 

"Hate the sin and not the sinner" is a precept 
which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely 
practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred 
spreads in the world. . . . 
Man and his deed are two distinct things.  It is 
quite proper to resist and attack a system, but 
to resist and attack its author is tantamount to 
resisting and attacking one-self.  For we are all 
tarred with the same brush and are children of one 
and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers 
within us are infinite. 
To slight a single human being is to slight those 
divine powers, and thus to harm not only that being, 
but with him, the whole world. 
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) 
_The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His 
Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas_ [1962], 
"Victory In South Africa"  

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