Vildana Kovacevic Quotes & Sayings

students, eh, you can love them or hate them, but you're not allowed to hit them with a shovel — Terry Pratchett

Today we often assume that before undertaking a religious lifestyle, we must prove to our own satisfaction that "God" or the "Absolute" exists. This is good scientific practice: first you establish a principle; only then can you apply it. But the Axial sages would say that this was to put the cart before the horse. First you must commit yourself to the ethical life; then disciplined and habitual benevolence, not metaphysical conviction, would give you intimations of the transcendence you sought. — Karen Armstrong

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank. — Lee H. Hamilton

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.
Shin'a'in saying — Mercedes Lackey

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering. — Joseph Sobran