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Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
- Ellen White
Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
- Joseph Addison
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
- Joseph Heller
Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
- Ernest Cline
The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it. Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities
- Ernest Cline
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
- Ernest Hemingway
The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.
- Eugene Peterson
The experts in our society who offer to help us have a kind of general-staff mentality from which massive, top-down solutions are issued to solve our problems. Then when the solutions don't work, we get mired in the nothing-can-be-done swamp. We are first incited into being grandiose and then intimidated into being infantile. But there is another way, the plain way of quiet Christian humility.
- Eugene Peterson
An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.
- Stanley Hauerwas
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
- Henry Ward Beecher