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Arthur Schopenhauer:
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorisms.
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Paul Goodman:
When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them.
Paul Goodman, "Spring and Summer 1956," sct. 6, Five Years (1966).
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Thomas Merton:
It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God's will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe you - try to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as God's will yourself!
Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation, chapter 14, p. 107 (1949).
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Tiruvalluvar:
Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
Tiruvalluvar, The Sacred Kural.
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Baron de Montesquieu:
History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Letters (1721).
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