Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Print this Page [251-275] of 357Posts from Dick, fort worthDick, fort worth Previous 25 Next 25 1 Reply Dick, Fort Worth 1/1/07 re: Georges Clemenceau quote In his later years and after much reflection MacArthur also said about war, "If you lose you are annihilated. If you win, you stand only to lose. No longer does it possess the chance of the winner of a duel---it contains rather the germs of double suicide." Reply Dick, Fort Worth 1/1/07 re: Dwight D. Eisenhower quote Ah, if only all people didn't want war. But war is exactly what people like Cheney and corporate crooks across the globe want. And they know just as Goehring knew, the way to war is to wave a flag, build fear and cry patriotism. 1Reply Dick, Fort Worth 1/1/07 re: Charles Eliot Norton quote A good reason for everyone to read the Nation magazine. It is still as reasonable and important as it was when Norton was editor. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 12/29/06 re: Lance Morrow quote Very few quotations are irreducibly true and this is a good example. True in almost every case but some crimes should not be forgiven for to do so may prove encouraging or allowing repeated offenses. Think King George and the Constitution, for example. Or "pugnacious" Rumsfeld and torture. Or wholesale corruption and Cheney. 1 Reply Dick, Fort Worth 12/26/06 re: Robert G. Ingersoll quote Another truth from Ingersoll. The sense of words are not responsible for the source. 1Reply Dick, Fort Worth 12/25/06 re: Samuel Adams quote This quote is 'such stuff as dreams are made of.' We may try to promote virtue but when ignorance so far outnumbers us we shall suffer and suffer like hell for too little choice is left us. Logan says that "science is all that can be proven." How can he belittle that when absolutely nothing can be proven by religion Even he holiest of the religious admit their only resort is faith. Faith--not reason, not proof. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 12/25/06 re: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote Right again. This quotation stands complete and true. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 12/25/06 re: Eric Schaub quote Reston is right. Life can be hell from the beginning in millions of cases. 11Reply Dick, Fort Worth 12/21/06 re: Saint Thomas Aquinas quote Three of the things necessary to the integrity and wellbeing of humankind are: discard the crutches of religion depend on one's own reasoning exercise tolerance and kindness Reply Dick, Fort Worth 12/21/06 re: Pierre Corneille quote Do your duty but never waste faith in ghosts. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 11/1/06 re: Cato the Younger quote A pitiful syntax of mundane opinion made as obfuscatory as possible. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 11/1/06 re: Alexander Hamilton quote If instead of the words "supporting itself," one could substitute "satisfying its insatiable greed" it would be a good description of the history of U.S. governments for the most part, and especially the present one. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 10/24/06 re: Chi An quote Thank you again, Reston, for reason in a slough of obduracy. I much appreciate your comments. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 10/23/06 re: Sir Roy Calne quote David, I appreciate your reasonable and courteous reply. I would argue that the state has failed in matters of war, of equal justice, of common welfare, and many other areas. But that doesn't mean that it is incapable of merit of any kind. Our Constitution (state) has at least kept us better protected than having no government. Do you not believe that the regulation of driving has made the public safer? If that is so, why wouldn't a regulation of parenting be beneficial. My feeling is that consideration for the welfare of children should be given a high priority. And religion has nothing to do with it, except that if one is Christian I can hardly see how that concern could be denied, for it is a moral and humanitarian issue. 2Reply Dick, Fort Worth 10/23/06 re: Sir Roy Calne quote Thanks, Reston, for being one of the few sane voices on this blog. 1Reply Dick, Fort Worth 10/20/06 re: David Reisman quote A perceptive insight. I wonder if Reisman might have added in another sentence that humans also surrender a little freedom purposely in respect and appreciation of others' needs. 1 Reply Dick, Fort Worth 10/9/06 re: Will Durant quote I would give five-plus stars to A from Reston for his statement is not only true but truly humanitarian. I give five stars to Will Durant, one of the, if not the, finest of historians, because what he says is also true. Durant isn't talking about equity, he's simply stating how humankind thinks and acts. If one is interested in Mr. Durant, and his co-writer, Ariel Durant, you can find these words as well as much great thought in his small book "The Lessons of History." Reply Dick, Fort Worth 10/6/06 re: Josiah William Gitt quote I go along with Reston. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 10/6/06 re: Henry Steele Commager quote In today's reactionary climate, Mike, liberals ARE non-conformists. And never forget progress is almost always made by non-conformists. 1Reply Dick, Fort Worth 10/6/06 re: Viktor Frankl quote Including abortion and suicide. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 9/19/06 re: Mark Twain quote I don't think Twain actually made such a remark. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 9/12/06 re: Albert Einstein quote How complete and brilliant a statement of religion and science. Reply Dick, Fort Worth 9/11/06 re: Eleanor Roosevelt quote Mike, can you give one instance to validate your claim that Christianity is being attacked in schools. How can you believe something with absolutely no proof? 4Reply Dick, Fort Worth 9/8/06 re: Auberon Herbert quote Socialism is not the most efficient economic system in the world but it is the most humanitarian. Its role, though minor, in our capitalist system has been absolutely necessary for the success this country has realized. Many who abhor it don't realize they profit from it. How many would favor eliminating Social Security, the 40-hour week, child labor laws, public libraries, etc.,etc.? Christians should realize more than anyone else that their Christ could only be described as Socialist in his actions and thought. Does anyone think he would favor capitalism? Reply Dick, Fort Worth 9/8/06 re: George W. Bush quote Another thought: One of the best ways to read the Bible is Bishop Spong's "Sins of the Scripture." Never learned so much as in this book. Previous 25 Next 25 SaveOk2 Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print