Rokuren Quotes & Sayings

If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world. — Alan Wolfe

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system
whether political, religious or economic
that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections. — Naomi Klein

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way. — David Strathairn

ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER. — Nellie Bly

And yet our personal experience and the study of history make it abundantly clear that the means whereby we try to achieve something are at least as important as the end we wish to attain. Indeed they are even more important. For the means employed inevitably determine the nature of the result achieved; whereas, however good the end aimed at may be, its goodness is powerless to counteract the effects of the bad means we use to reach it. — Aldous Huxley

If somebody's offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I've got the ego to say, 'I'd like a shot at that.' — Stanley R. Jaffe

I'm a bean counter. Oh, I'm not an accountant, but I did spill pinto beans on the counter. — Jarod Kintz

One thing about Southern women, they were tough. No one said no and got away with it. Especially not when it came to a loved one. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let there be truth at last,/ Even if despair. — Thomas Hardy

How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury clergymen who, doubting Galileo's claim that the earth was not the center of the solar system, put him under house arrest for the last eight years of his life? In part, the answer lies in the distinction between skepticism and closed-mindedness. Many scientists who were skeptical about cold fusion nevertheless tried to replicate the reported phenomenon in their own labs; Galileo's critics refused to look at the pertinent data. — Thomas Gilovich

You find out that all this stuff you've accumulated, you could care less about it. It's just the relationships that matter. — Jeff Foxworthy