Sunday, April 20, 2003
�Remember that to change your mind and follow someone who puts you right is to be none the less free than you were before.�
- Marcus Aurelius (384 � 322 BC), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher: �Meditations�.
�Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.�
- Confucius (c. 550 � c. 478 BC), Chinese philosopher and teacher of ethics; �Analects�.
�My dear child, you must believe in God in spite of what the clergy tell you.�
- Benjamin Jowett (1817 � 1893), English scholar, translator, essayist and priest: in M. Asquith �Autobiography�, 1922.
�By liberalism I don�t mean the creed of any party or any century. I mean a generosity of spirit, a tolerance of others, an attempt to comprehend otherness, a commitment to the rule of law, a high ideal of the worth and dignity of man, a repugnance for authoritarianism and a love of freedom.�
- Alan Paton (1903 � 1988), South African writer: lecture on South Africa at Yale University, 1973.
- Marcus Aurelius (384 � 322 BC), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher: �Meditations�.
�Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.�
- Confucius (c. 550 � c. 478 BC), Chinese philosopher and teacher of ethics; �Analects�.
�My dear child, you must believe in God in spite of what the clergy tell you.�
- Benjamin Jowett (1817 � 1893), English scholar, translator, essayist and priest: in M. Asquith �Autobiography�, 1922.
�By liberalism I don�t mean the creed of any party or any century. I mean a generosity of spirit, a tolerance of others, an attempt to comprehend otherness, a commitment to the rule of law, a high ideal of the worth and dignity of man, a repugnance for authoritarianism and a love of freedom.�
- Alan Paton (1903 � 1988), South African writer: lecture on South Africa at Yale University, 1973.
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