Ratzingers Quotes & Sayings

Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened. — Joseph Fink

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason. — Miguel De Cervantes

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so. — Ralph Peters

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day. — Christiane Amanpour

And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so.
- Javert — Victor Hugo

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. — Nick Johnson

There could be no such experience if death means extinction or cessation. Death always means separation, and it does in Romans 6 as well. — Charles C. Ryrie

I identify [myself] as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule. — Patton Oswalt

[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like. — Thelma Schoonmaker

Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world — Bryan Caplan

And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal). — Joanna Russ

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. — Plato