Bettiol Flanders Quotes & Sayings

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up ... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present. — Noam Chomsky

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did. — Lauren Hutton

The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling. It was a patchwork of asphalt spot repairs and loose gravel over a crumbling base of decades-old concrete. — Michael Connelly

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50. — Sammy Davis Jr.

I know it's not a lot of comfort right now, but the bad reminds you just how good everything else is. You've got to have both. — Kit Rocha

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction. — Jacob Needleman

The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years. — Denis Hayes

For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours? — Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. — Thomas J. Watson

The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like being in credit, means an active interest applies between the two parties and, once the debt is taken care of, the interest is bound to wane. — Robert Rowland Smith