Konkin Iii Quotes & Sayings

At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety. — Os Guinness

Any time you need an expert parental hand- (Zarek)
I'll find Jericho. (Astrid)
Um, could you at least wait until that thing's housebroken? (Jericho) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've done my work and I'm happy with it ... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was. — Brandon Lee

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Aren't we straying as though through an infinite nothing? Isn't empty space breathing at us? — Friedrich Nietzsche

[R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money. — Doug Bandow

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast. — Winston Churchill

You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too. You can teach me like Grandaddy taught you 'n' Uncle Jack." "No — Harper Lee

The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an account of self. It is rather from the human and from what the human most irreducibly is that it is a question of starting off again. From the human as it objectively is before it starts to construct a language and a thinking which help to distance it from its beginning, from its prematureness without thinking it in the totality of its being. — Luce Irigaray

The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest. — Ban Ki-moon

I've decided that the out-of-five-stars rating system is kind of stupid and useless and reductive, so I won't be doing that anymore. When I have the time and the inclination, I'll post a comment or two on books I've completed. — Jamie Fitzpatrick

We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ...What if your story starts the conversation? — Cindee Snider Re