QUOTES

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."

--Cheris Kramare & Paula Treicher

Footnotes, sources and references
are omitted in this work.
Educated people will not need them,
uneducated people will not read them

--St. Francis de Sales

"Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good."

--Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christian, 1890

"God gives you a brain and a penis-- but only enough blood to run one at a time."

--Robin Williams

"There are some people...and I am one of them-- who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe."

--G.K. Chesterton, On Heretics.

"I've never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute."

--Rebecca West, 1913

"Christian usage attatches such a value to the perfection of obedience that it has been, and will ever be, accounted the distingusihing mark by which we are able to recognize Catholics."

--Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christian, 1890

"Tell us straight that you do not believe in the Gospel of Christ; for you believe what you want in the Gospel and disbelieve what you want. You believe in yourself rather than in the Gospel."

--St. Augustine, Against Faustus the Manichean (5th century)

"A sincere novel exhibits the simplicity of one particular man; an insincere novel exhibits the simplicity of mankind."

--G.K. Chesterton, On Heretics.

"A long dispute on philosophic matters can contain little philosophy."

--Fontenelle

"Christians are...born for combat, whereof, the greater the vehemence, the more assuredly, God aiding, the triumph."

--Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christian, 1890

"The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong, it is practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. All this means one thing, and one thing only. It means people care less for whether they are philosophically right."

--G.K. Chesterton, On Heretics

"The golden rule is that there is no golden rule."

--George Bernard Shaw

"I believe that all men must have a greater affection for the women whom they see disposed to be good: and even for the attainment of earthly ends, women must have more power over men because they are good."

--St. Teresa of Avila, Autobiography.

"Blasphemy is an artistic effect because blasphemy depends upon philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion."

--G.K. Chesterton. On Heretics.

"You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god."

--Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989)

"The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; and the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor."

--St. Basil, Homilies, 2 (4th cent.)