Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

While We're Amassing Quotations:

How about one from a random opening of a Thomas Merton book(one of my favorite games):

How to be a pharisee in politics: At every moment display righteous indignation over the means(whether good or evil) which your opponent has used to attain the same corrupt end which you are trying to achieve. Point to the means he is using as evidence that you own purposes are righteous- even though they are the same as his. If the means he makes use of are successful, then show that his success itself is proof that he has used corrupt methods. But in your own case, success is proof of righteousness.

-Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Another Quote:

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbor... We may be so made as to be particularly fond of lunatics or specially interested in leprosy. We may love negroes because they are black or German Socialists because they are pedantic. But we have to love our neighbor because he is there-- a much more alarming reason for a much more serious operation. He is the sample of humanity which is actually given us. Precisely because he may be anybody he is everybody. He is a symbol because he is an accident.

G.K. Chesterton, Heretics