Conscription Act Quotes

#1. How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.

Wilfrid Sheed

#2. I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

Bayard Rustin

#3. I'm being a dad and a good husband.

Chad Smith

#4. All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

Nicolas Chamfort

#5. War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

Bayard Rustin

#6. God is life...Life is all and, too, we see it as simply a word. Yet words born of love, written, spoken or sung, illuminate and redeem the human soul. They become the rays of sunshine that transform an ordinary day.

Dana Rondel

#7. I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

Mia Hamm

#8. Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

Karl Rahner

#9. Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid.

Hayim Nahman Bialik

#10. One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.

Samael Aun Weor

#11. People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Virginia Satir

#12. Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

Lou Reed

#13. True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.

RuPaul

#14. If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

D.H. Lawrence

#15. According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.

Tina Fey

#16. It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it
both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code
just feminine code.

Elizabeth Wein