Bartolome Quotes

#1. Humans without humanity, war_torn world for eternity

Mouloud Benzadi

#2. I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#3. The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#4. That's how you make me feel tonight. You. Crush. Me. Under your magnificent light show.

Katie Kacvinsky

#5. The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands ... is ... the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#6. I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis
and that's dangerous.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)

Donovan L. Graham

#8. I'd watched a lot of David Letterman for sure. As far as who I watched as a late-show host, it was definitely Letterman.

Chad VanGaalen

#9. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis.

Dan Brown

#10. What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#11. Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Jo Nesbo

#12. Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#13. God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#14. The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love. Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

Josef Pieper

#15. And why have you burnt our Gods, when others are brought from other Regions by the Spaniards? Are the Gods of other Provinces more sacred than ours?

Bartolome De Las Casas

#16. No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision

Sally Jessy Raphael

#17. The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#18. The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

Bartolome De Las Casas