Perennialism Vs Essentialism Quotes

#1. It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

Robert D. Kaplan

#2. We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Martha Beck

#3. Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

Samuel P. Huntington

#4. If you don't want to worship a guy you can beat up, then I might humbly suggest you reconsider Caesar and the Greco-Roman narrative. It sounds like 'Christ and him crucified' is not for you. At least not yet.

Brian D. McLaren

#5. Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

#6. If I believed in polls, I wouldn't get up in the morning.

Hillary Clinton

#7. I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

Frank Robinson

#8. Champions do consistently what others do sporadically.

Orrin Woodward

#9. To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

J. William Fulbright

#10. Everyone seems to know more than I do, and being on the shallow end of the information pool is starting to piss me off.

Kendare Blake

#11. The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The worst thing about this illness isn't the things it makes me believe, or what it makes me do. It's not the control that it has over me, or even the control it's allowed other people to take.
Worse than all of that is how I have become selfish.

Nathan Filer