#gm

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#clings #element #exaggeration #great #great virtues

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#economics #free #krugman #schemes #nature

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. ↗

— Felix Adler

#creed #dogma #every #experience #inception

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#admit #another #class #country #dogma

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. ↗

— Tori Amos

#father #king #marched #mind #much

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. ↗

— Michael Apted

#britain #enigma #great #history #invaded

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #becomes #catholic #dogma #faith

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#dogma #drum #organ #used

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#comes #i #i am #judgmental #just

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#became #came #chain #chicago #family