Benedictine Rule Quotes & Sayings

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. — Ross Macdonald

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life. — Joan D. Chittister

Woman reduces us all to a common denominator. — George Bernard Shaw

[...] god's cowardly, it doesn't want to know or take responsibility for what it's doing. — Steve Aylett

The highest freedom of mind comes from becoming non-judgmental. — Debasish Mridha

We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles. — H.P. Lovecraft

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy. — Adam Weishaupt