Quotes

"We're reaching for the moon and yet it's increasingly hard for us to reach ourselves."

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

Defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

"Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it."

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all: the apathy of human beings."

"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance."

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

"Indifference to objective truth is encouraged by the sealing off of one part of the world from another, which makes it harder and harder to discover what is really happening." l

"If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous."

"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."

There are three stages to conversion to Catholicism: First, realizing that what many say about the Catholic Church is untrue; Second, defending the Catholic Church against unjust attacks; third, running away from the Church.

"Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it; and right is right even if nobody is doing it."

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

.... "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

The poor are not some distant reality, or some uniform block of people, suffering outside of our own reality. The poor are not even "the poor." The poor are human beings, with desires as simple and universal as wanting to have enough money to take their children out for ice cream to celebrate the start of summer, or not wanting the other kids at school to make fun of them.

The slow cure is always the surest, and spiritual maladies, like those of the body, while they are apt to come on horseback, tend to depart slowly and on foot. So we must be brave and patient.

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."