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Are you sure?" asked the Savage. "Are you quite sure that the Edmund in that pneumatic chair hasn't been just as heavily punished as the Edmund who's wounded and bleeding to death?
- Aldous Huxley
Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150.
- Aldous Huxley
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude
- Aldous Huxley
Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
- Alexander Hamilton
The text of the Bible means what God inspired it to mean, not "what it means to
- Donald Whitney
I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
- Drew Barrymore
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
- DL Moody
Engage with the Bible. Meditate on it day and night. Think and rethink about God's Word. Let it be your guide. Make it your go-to book for questions. Let it be the ultimate authority in your life.
- Max Lucado
God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
- Oswald Chambers
Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.
- Pope John Paul II
Persuasion is better than force.
- Aesop