Human hearts are made to bleed at the sight a precious item destroyed, irrespective of who owns the item.

There is no pain in losing what you never had.

POVERTY CRIME When you push peopleInto the throes of povertyThey tend to think their value lowAnd so do they yours They will not think it graveTo lose their low valued livesAnd so will they not yours

In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice

How remorseless must one be find pleasure in riding a Wilhelmina golden coach in the 21st century.

How could the eagle-eyed politicians of The Hague, who specialized in pointing out the tiniest specks in other people’s eyes, overlook someone riding a racist coach in their own neighborhood?

Did you know that even 50 years after all other countries had abolished slavery, the Netherlands refused to?

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is the man who had such a long record of infamy the devil would be blue with envy.

Troubles teaches us what we must know.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Imagine how much you could have saved if you didn't spend a lot of your money on those unnecessary things with the intention of getting attention or feeling "important" in the eyes of others.

But who are you?"Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!"What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.