Rakoff Joanna Quotes & Sayings

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. — Rudyard Kipling

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be! — Alphonsus Liguori

Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration - poetry, novels, music, dancing - if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding. — Ben Fountain

Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history. — Harold Covington

Sexual organs are the root of all evil. — Michael Bassey Johnson

To dust is only to forestall burial — Annie Dillard

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind. — Paul Valery

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice. — Mother Teresa

Like a subscription to a magazine, thought Peter. The period during which I am allowed to be happy has expired. — Charlie Lovett

It's a new dawn, it's a new day ... and I'm feeling good. — Nina Simone

Life goes on with fragile normalcy. — Sara Gruen

Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience. — Henry David Thoreau

In a world without God, who's to say whose values are right and whose are wrong? There can be no objective right and wrong, only our culturally and personally relative, subjective judgments. Think of what that means! It means it's impossible to condemn war, oppression, or crime as evil. Nor can you praise generosity, self-sacrifice, and love as good. To kill someone or to love someone is morally equivalent. For in a universe without God, good and evil do not exist - there is only the bare, valueless fact of existence, and there is no one to say you are right and I am wrong. — William Lane Craig

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. — Simone De Beauvoir