Quotes & Sayings About America In Angela's Ashes

The year's fruit must fall that the next year's may come, and the winter is the only way to the spring. — George MacDonald

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away. — Hayden Fry

The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master ... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others ... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government
not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it. — William Hazlitt

Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!
He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phantom came to me from my own fire and ashes, that is the truth! It did not come from the 'beyond'! — Friedrich Nietzsche

religion is created by humans rather than by gods, and it is defined by its social function rather than by the existence of deities. Religion is anything that confers superhuman legitimacy on human social structures. It legitimises human norms and values by arguing that they reflect superhuman laws. Religion — Yuval Noah Harari