Hainele Imparatului Quotes & Sayings

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias toward exposition: a sophisticated ability to think conceptually, deductively and sequentially; a high valuation of reason and order; an abhorrence of contradiction; a large capacity for detachment and objectivity; and a tolerance for delayed response. — Neil Postman

Facts count. Conspiracy theories, usually the refuge of the bitter or disempowered, range from factually challenged to wildly hallucinogenic. Many conspiracy theories do both overt and tacit harm. Almost all are insults, intended or unintended, are insults to thousands of hard-working and honest people, and sometimes to entire races, nations, or cultures. — K. Lee Lerner

Personal prayer does not dispense us from corporate prayer. The one sustains the other. — Robert Benson

Would you want to go to heaven if God were not there, only His gifts? — John Piper

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. — Francis Bacon

What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property? — Robert M. T. Hunter

National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon. — Frantz Fanon

Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them. — John Ortberg