“The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.” Quote by Milton Steinberg
“When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody who has an extra dollar in his pocket? God forbid that the Democratic Party should become a mere gathering of the unsuccessful!” WayShouldIdeasDoneGrowsPartyFoolDollarsDemocraticMereExtrasPocketsScareGatheringDemocratic PartyUnsuccessful Author:John W. Davis
“A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.” MenHellTakenSteam Book:The Dark Tower and Other Stories Source: The Dark Tower and Other Stories
“It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.” ChildrenAmericaCausesParentGreaterPolicyProgramRemainsChinaDamage Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.” PeopleGovernmentReligiousReligious Faith Author:David Burge
“Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.” PeoplePayCivilizationTaxesOur TimeRunawayGullible Author:Thomas Sowell
“Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.” UseBodyHolyOppositesAbortionEucharistParodyAntichristDemonic Author:Peter Kreeft
“Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.” DespairNegativeTendenciesOptimistConservatismPessimistic Author:John Derbyshire
“A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.” IfsKnowsGovernmentCertainIndividualForceFunctionFraud Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.” PeoplePovertyEconomicRisingTides Author:Jonah Goldberg
“The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.” PeopleGovernmentActionBeliefGroupsTastePolicePrivilegedCrowAffirmative ActionAffirmativeJim CrowPolice Power Author:Charles A. Murray