Bleedy Ray Quotes & Sayings

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians. — Anne Graham Lotz

I believe it was Napoleon who first sensed the ease with which, in modern society, the illusion of freedom can be created by strategic relaxation of regulations and law on individual thought, provided it is only individual, while all the time fundamental economic and political liberties are being circumscribed. The barriers to the kind of power Napoleon wielded as emperor are not individual rights so much as the kinds of rights associated with autonomy of local community, voluntary association, political party. These are the real measure of the degree to which central political power is limited in a society. Neither centralization nor bureaucratized collectivism can thrive as long as there is a substantial body of local authorities to check them — Robert A. Nisbet

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions:
The first one is: Who started it?
The second is: Are we going to make it?
The third is: Where are we going to put it?
The fourth is: Who's going to clean up?
And the fifth: Is it serious?
Out Of Your Mind (2004), Audio lecture 1: The Nature of Consciousness: A Game That's Worth The Candle. — Alan W. Watts

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution. — James Madison

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! — Charles Dickens

The whole world seemed to be wounded, broken, hurting. — Pamela Clare

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. — Bruce Greenwood

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses. — Robertson Davies