People Who Mooch Off Others Quotes & Sayings

He was opposed to capital punishment - "institutionalized sadism," he termed it - and in favor of prison reforms that would emphasize rehabilitation. His opinions were generally conservative, however, and he did not subscribe to the fashionable view of the sixties that criminals were victims of society. — Gerald Clarke

Tom Paine generally took a critical stance when dealing with religion and the church, but in 1775, in an essay entitled, "Thoughts on Defensive War" he wrote as follows: "In the barbarous ages of the world, men in genernal had no liberty. the strong governed the weak a will; till the coming of Christ there was no sucht thing as political freedom in any part of the world... The Romans held the world in slavery and were themselves slaves of their emperors... Wherefore political as well as spiritual freedom is the gift of God through Christ — Edmund A. Opitz

What impresses me about Catholic mythology is partly its tasteless kitsch but mostly the airy nonchalance with which these people make up the details as they go along. It is just shamelessly invented. — Richard Dawkins

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now. — Cathy Guisewite

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people. — Rob Bell

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company. — Milan Kundera

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth. — Mosab Hassan Yousef

People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote)) — Helen Keller

My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them. — Natascha McElhone

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me. — Leslea Tash

It is hard to create community when the sheer number of options generate a system in which no one is in the same place at the same time. — Rebekah Nathan

It's very difficult to see your heroes crumbling before you. — Andaleeb Wajid

Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made. — Dan Brown