Doe Quotes - Page 157

Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.

Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Racism really does exist.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.

The United States has done some very good things in the world, and that does not change the fact that the World Court was quite correct in condemning the United States as an international terrorist state.

My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there's no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it's confirmed, then you can be afraid.

The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean for ever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.