Quotes About Bartolome De Las Casas

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

John Perry

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.

Ed Robertson

#7. Appreciate every moment because this moment is your precious life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Angela Davis

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

Bartolome De Las Casas

#10. 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

#11. If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.

Arinn Dembo

#12. On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

Sam Neill

#14. I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world ... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

Mark Zuckerberg

#15. You cannot create great work unless a little bit of you goes into it, be it your heart, your soul or your beliefs.

John Hegarty

#16. Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.

Bobby Darin

#17. There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.

Margaret Cho

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Thomas Hobbes in his 1651 masterwork Leviathan. I strongly recommend that you read part III, chapter 38, and part IV, chapter 44,

Anonymous

#21. 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