Ioan Robu (1944) Roman Catholic archbishop
Source: Pope Francis will travel to Romania in 2019 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/39960/pope-francis-will-travel-to-romania-in-2019 (20 November 2018)
“Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?”
Source: Letter to A.S. Suvorin (November 18, 1891)
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Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Fate molta attenzione nell'esprimere alcune parole. Spesso hanno un forte impatto emotivo su una persona e possono ferirla più di quanto la vostra mente possa immaginare.
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“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”
Gordon R. Dickson book Dorsai!
“Protector II” (section 19, p. 490)
Dorsai! (1960)
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
"Introduction" in The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
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Context: !-- I must admit the title of this book gives me pause. Who says the enclosed stories are my ‘best’? Do I? Does the editor? Or some critic? Some reader? A general vote among the entire population of the world?
And whoever says it — can it be so? --> Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not — so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?
Karlheinz Deschner book Abermals krähte der Hahn
Die Christen entwendeten den Juden das Alte Testament und gebrauchten es als Waffe gegen sie. […] Dabei münzte man den Glauben von der Auserwähltheit Israels zum Absolutheitsanspruch des Christentums und den jüdischen Messianismus zur Lehre von der Wiederkunft Christi um.
Abermals krähte der Hahn, btb-Taschenbücher im Goldmann Verlag 1996, ISBN 3-442-72025-7, S. 505
Ernst Nolte (1923–2016) German historian and philosopher
Source: Fascism & Communism (2004), p. 27
“Those who struggle for virtue in community life will have greater merit”
Saint Nimatullah Kassab (1808–1858) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint
than hermits <br class="br"> Vatican biography of Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini, Vatican News Service http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20040516_al-hardini_en.html (May 2004)
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
Said to the press on the flight back from the 2018 Papal visit to the Philippines in response to a question about what he would say to families who had more children than they could afford because the Church forbids artificial contraception. As reported on BBC news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30890989 and other outlets. (19 January 2018) <br class="br">2010s, 2018
“There is merit without attainment, but no attainment without some merit.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il y a du mérite sans élévation, mais il n'y a point d'élévation sans quelque mérite.
Maxim 400.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)