Pavanes Def Quotes & Sayings

Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in. — Willa Cather

Our attitudes, our perspectives, our ways of relating to others, our methods of responding to the circumstances of the world around us, our self-image, even our understanding of God have all been shaped by the destructive values and dehumanizing structures of the world's brokenness. — M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

The evident problem with democracy today is that the state is pre-empting - or "crowding out," as the economists say - our moral judgments. Rulers are adding moral judgments to the expanding schedule of powers they exercise. Nor does the state deal merely with principles. It is actually telling its subjects to do very specific things. Yet decisions about how we live are what we mean by "freedom," and freedom is incompatible with a moralizing state. That is why I am provoked to ask the question: can the moral life survive democracy? — Kenneth Minogue

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference. — Dave Mustaine

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me. — Albert Einstein

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear. — Jed Rubenfeld