Ed Martin Quotes

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

Morons. I've got morons on my team.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

O medo corta mais profundamente do que as espadas.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

When people show me pictures of their kids, it's okay. But when I give them a picture of me, to show to their kids, I'm weird. What kind of one way street is that?

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

You're never fully dressed without a smile.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.