“We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.”
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter III, Section 23, pg. 135
Context: The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.
“They can do it. Just leave them alone. That's a lifestyle I don't want to touch.”
1970s, They're Born That Way (1971)
“All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.”
“No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”
Source: Nothing to Lose
Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 33.
Context: Miracles are very often thought of, both by those who believe in them and by those who do not, as events, or purported events, that contradict the laws of nature and that therefore cannot be explained by science or reason. But this is not at all what the Bible means by a miracle, as any Biblical scholar will tell you. “The laws of nature” is a modern scientific concept. The Bible knows nothing about nature, let alone the laws of nature.
Speech in the House of Lords (30 May 1777), quoted in William Pitt, The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches (London: Aylott & Jones, 1848), p. 144.
[Blows a raspberry]
Count de Monet: Don't be saucy with me, Bearnaise.
History of the World, Part I
“Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
