Bitmesin Diye Quotes & Sayings

It is the question that is also asked by modern political theory: Can politics accept truth as a structural category? Or must truth, as something unattainable, be relegated to the subjective sphere, its place taken by an attempt to build peace and justice using whatever instruments are available to power? By relying on truth, does not politics, in view of the impossibility of attaining consensus on truth, make itself a tool of particular traditions that in reality are merely forms of holding on to power?
And yet, on the other hand, what happens when truth counts for nothing? What kind of justice is then possible? Must there not be common criteria that guarantee real justice for all - criteria that are independent of the arbitrariness of changing opinions and powerful lobbies? Is it not true that the great dictatorships were fed by the power of the ideological lie and that only truth was capable of bringing freedom? — Pope Benedict XVI

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist. — Rachel Held Evans

Suddenly,I want to hold the whole night close to my chest and I decide it is mine alone — Megan Abbott

It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all others, so that he alone may be heard. The humble man speaks only in order to be spoken to. — Thomas Merton

We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own — Barack Obama

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us. — Elizabeth Banks

Gratitude is where every positive attitude starts. — Michael Hyatt