Lazater Quotes & Sayings

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement. — Stanley Hauerwas

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. — Mahatma Gandhi

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto. — Woodrow Wilson

The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work. — George B. Cortelyou

I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast. — Tom Robbins

They listened to the last enchantments of the Middle Ages, heard the horns of Elfland, and made designs on the culture that our own age is only beginning fully to appreciate. They were philologists and philomyths: lovers of logos (the ordering power of words) and mythos (the regenerative power of story), with a nostalgia for things medieval and archaic and a distrust of technological innovation that never decayed into the merely antiquarian. Out of the texts they studied and the tales they read, they forged new ways to convey old themes - sin and salvation, despair and hope, friendship and loss, fate and free will - in a time of war, environmental degradation, and social change. — Philip Zaleski