R.S. Thomas Quotes
Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak
Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.
It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
