Strahler Lett Quotes & Sayings

A society governed by consent does not necessarily issue from a social contract, whether actual or implied. It is a society in which dealings between citizens, and between citizens and those in authority, are consensual, in the manner of daily courtesies, games of football, theatrical events or family meals. As Adam Smith made clear, order may emerge from consensual dealings. But it emerges 'by an invisible hand', and not, as a rule, because someone has imposed it. In — Roger Scruton

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are. — Susan Meissner

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat. — Walter Lippmann

Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive. — Chuck Palahniuk

Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea. — Terry Pratchett

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo. — Seth Godin

You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to keep us standing upright. — Christopher Isherwood

Death stripes away many things, especially when it arrives at a temperature hot enough to vaporize iron ... The immortal remains of Brother Watchtower watched the dragon flap away into the fog ... — Terry Pratchett

When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes. — Frank Laubach

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing. — Kate DiCamillo