Orestes Brownson Quotes

#1. I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.

El Greco

#2. If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.

Orestes Brownson

#3. I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.

Richie Sambora

#4. I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.

Justin Timberlake

#5. If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

Orestes Brownson

#6. I know some people with such bad tempers that, even if they accidentally walked into a tree branch, they will chop the whole tree down.

Anthony Liccione

#7. Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

Orestes Brownson

#8. The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

Orestes Brownson

#9. On its own, my spirit seemed to relax, like a folding chair let out by a pool.

Pat Conroy

#10. You were going to sacrifice yourself to save everyone else?"
I cringed. "Then I wimped out.

Carrie Jones

#11. The mind of a man is often thrown off its track by what women possess between their legs

The Halloween Orgy Massacre

Jeff O'Brian

#12. I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

Orestes Brownson

#13. I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

Randall Kennedy