The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Georges Bernanos
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I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically. -
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more. -
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. -
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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- Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
- It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
- A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.