Aoibhin Monaghan Quotes

#1. The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. What lay at the bottom of their savagery, of course, was their idiotic belief in Calvinism - beyond question the most brutal and barbaric theology ever subscribed to by mortal man, whether in or out of the African bush.

H.L. Mencken

#3. That mysterious play which extends from love of a body to a love of an entire person has seemed to me noble enough to consecrate to it one part of my life.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#4. Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

Karl Kraus

#5. Aptitude without Attitude is Blind;
Attitude without Aptitude is Lame.

Richard Marcel I.

#6. The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#7. History made when mindset changed.

Toba Beta

#8. For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means ... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

C.S. Lewis

#9. You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.

Pierce Brown

#10. Political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12

Jon Meacham

#11. Back when they had been teenagers who thought love was a noun, a thing you could possess.

Marcus Sakey