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"