The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures. Rene Girard Read Quote
I don’t mind what people say about me as long as it’s an opinion or the truth. If someone says, ‘He’s the worst comedian in the world,’ that’s fine. If someone says, ‘His face makes me want to punch the TV,’ that’s fine. But if they say, ‘Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,’ I go: no, no, no… that’s a lie. Ricky Gervais Read Quote
With a book called ‘Keeping Score,’ I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn’t know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that. Linda Sue Park Read Quote
To the solace of his name, simply saying ‘Muhammad’ has an incredibly soothing effect on me. Hamza Yusuf Read Quote
I don’t like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I’d be a professor. Kevin de Leon Read Quote
To be successful, you don’t have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it’s actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it’s easier to break them. Lauren Bush Read Quote
I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates. Bob Graham Read Quote
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. Elliott Abrams Read Quote