Kankaanpaa Quotes

#1. Jesus said that whatever you did to the least of his people, you did to him, and the lifers in penitentiaries are the leastest people in this country. Just look to see whose budgets are being cut these days -- the old, the crazies, the children in Head Start -- and that's where Jesus will be.

Anne Lamott

#2. It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#3. If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

David Landes

#4. I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.

Marie Brennan

#5. Nothing is more prejudicial to war than talk.

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

#6. People often reject and criticize what they believe Jesus would have no part in, but in reality most times Jesus is a part of the scandalous, the dirty and the dangerous.

Ricky Maye

#7. Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

H.L. Mencken

#8. The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Edmund Wilson