“All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.”

–Mahatma Gandhi

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

–Blaise Pascal

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

–Voltaire

“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”

–Napolean Bonaparte

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.

–Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“When you are hungry, do you put up pictures of bread?”

 –Wolfgang Luth, WWII U-boat commander, on the subject of forbidding the display of “pin-up girls” on his boats.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

–Martin Luther King Jr.

Babies haven’t any hair;

   Old men’s heads are just as bare;–

Between the cradle and the grave

   Lies a haircut and a shave.

–Samuel Hoffenstein

“I like pain.” –Steve McNair, Quarterback, Baltimore Ravens

“My Jesu swet I go to mete

His body is my soles delete.

Always I rise from the glomby earth

When Jesu sucketh me with his swet mouth.”

–attributed to St. Dorothea of Montau, ca. 1390

Dorethea was an ascetic, flagellant, ecstatic visionary, immured alive in the walls of the Marienwerder Cathedral, Danzig (nee Gdansk).

“Talent without knowledge is wasted.” — James Schroeder

“Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true.” — Emanuel Lasker