IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
[from trailer] Judge Joseph Palmer: You and I are finally done. Hank Palmer: Oh, we're not done.
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.
If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.
Joseph Goebbels: I won't use my final hours as Reich Chancellor to sign a statement of surrender!
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
