💬 Quotes

8,712 quotes from great books

"The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself."

— A History of the English-speaking Peoplesby Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men, regulated by law under representative institutions."

— A History of the English-speaking Peoplesby Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"Indigenous nations are not merely cultural groups or ethnic minorities; they are self-governing peoples whose sovereignty predates the formation of the settler states that surround them."

— The Return of the Nativeby Stephen Cornell

"The return of the native is not a nostalgic backward glance, but a forward-looking reclamation of authority, land, and institutional control."

— The Return of the Nativeby Stephen Cornell

"Economic development on native terms requires decoupling from external dependency and building internal capacity rooted in community values."

— The Return of the Nativeby Stephen Cornell

"Power is the central variable. Where tribes have real authority, they make better decisions for their people than any federal bureaucracy ever could."

— The Return of the Nativeby Stephen Cornell

"Institutional architecture matters: until Indigenous nations design governing systems that match their cultural traditions while asserting modern authority, sovereignty remains constrained."

— The Return of the Nativeby Stephen Cornell

"Decolonization is fundamentally an act of restoration—restoring land, restoring governance, and restoring the stories that anchor a people to their place."

— The Return of the Nativeby Stephen Cornell

"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."

— APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUAby John Henry Kardinal Newman

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

— APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUAby John Henry Kardinal Newman

"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: name religion as such, I do not understand it apart from dogma."

— APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUAby John Henry Kardinal Newman

"It is the rule of law, not of conscience, that is the daily concern of society; but it is the rule of conscience, not of law, that is the primary concern of religion."

— APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUAby John Henry Kardinal Newman

"To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant."

— APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUAby John Henry Kardinal Newman

"Conscience is a stern monitor, but in this century it has been superseded by a sort of idol, the supreme authority of human taste and judgment."

— APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUAby John Henry Kardinal Newman

"Hatred is a madness of the heart."

— Ben-Hurby Lew Wallace

"The past is a bucket of ashes, but the future is the prize to be won."

— Ben-Hurby Lew Wallace

"Lord, give me back my mother and my sister, or give me sight!"

— Ben-Hurby Lew Wallace

"God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."

— Ben-Hurby Lew Wallace

"My father was of the tribe of Judah, a prince among his people; and I am Judah Ben-Hur."

— Ben-Hurby Lew Wallace

"Mercy is the attribute of kings, but it is also the attribute of God, and it belongs to those who seek Him."

— Ben-Hurby Lew Wallace