A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. view
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves. view
I was predestined to be an Arminian. I became a Calvinist of my own free will. view
Have you ever met a Calvinist who did not think that he was one of the elect? view
Human behavior, suggested Greg Carey, a psychology professor at the University of Colorado, could be compared to lemonade. It's a mixture of water, lemon and sugar, and it's meaningless to ask which is most important. "Nature vs. nurture should have died ... view
Any contrasting of heredity with environment which presents one as more important than the other is completely meaningless. What we are depends 100 per cent on our heredity and also 100 per cent on our environment; change either and we are changed. Any at... view
Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate and captain of your soul. view
America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad, because it's going to put up a fight. It's going to say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil; who's standing center sta... view
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." view
There is an old story told by Jewish Rabbis. It tells of a man in a boat full of people, drilling a hole in the bottom underneath his seat. The Captain tries to stop him, by telling him that if he makes a hole the boat will sink and they will all drown. '... view
In an old Christian song titled "Hornets", the verses recount the stories of Jonah, Moses, and Balaam, and how God got them to say or do what he wanted them to, even though they were unwilling at first. The song gets its title from a verse that explains h... view
New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof chose two Cambodian prostitutes and attempted to buy their freedom from their brothel owners. He selected young women who were there against their will, willing to tell their story, and actually wanted to leave pro... view
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. view
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. -- Robert Jackson view
An Arab chief tells a story of a spy who was captured and then sentenced to death by a general in the Persian army. This general had the strange custom of giving condemned criminals a choice between the firing squad and the big, black door. As the moment ... view
There is a mystery about kite-flying that has always intrigued me. When the kite string breaks for some reason, one would think that the kite freed from all restraints would soar higher into the skies. But it doesn't. It starts zigzagging, flipping, and d... view
Perhaps we do not realize the problem, so to call it, of enabling finite free wills to co-exist with Omnipotence. It seems to involve at every moment almost a sort of "divine abdication." -- C. S. Lewis view
[on leaving America to join another country] The boldest approach is to start a nation of your own. Sadly, these days it is essentially impossible to buy an uninhabited island and declare it a sovereign nation: virtually every rock above the waterline i... view
http://www.snopes.com/autos/accident/seatbelt.asp Despite the vital role automobile seat belts have played in saving thousands and thousands of lives over the last several decades, there is still a group Buckle up of drivers and passengers who are dete... view
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspir... view
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaningless was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a ... view
The dubious reasoning of this “secularist syllogism” rests on a fallacy of equivocation, in which “religion and politics” is wrongly made identical with “church and state.” Church and state are authoritative institutions, while religion and po... view
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