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Quote by Thomas Merton

“I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way”

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Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968) was an American writer, poet, social critic, and mystic. His works covered a wide range of topics including philosophy, religion, and social justice, and were highly appreciated by readers. more

“The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.”

People Long Ideas Feelings Values Liberty Class Strange Concepts Bottom Dislike Offensive

Author:John Stuart Mill

“The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.”

Feelings Individual Responsibility Creation Direct Protestantism

Book:Auguste Comte and Positivism

Source: Auguste Comte and Positivism

“Leaders should be the chief repenters.”

Should Leader Chiefs

Author:Jack Miller

“Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.”

Gone Wind Homosexuality Homosexual Plague Reap Perversion Whirlwind Promiscuous