“The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.”

“But a sincere idealist, implicitly pan-Deist in faith, deeply concerned with the problems of the world and of time, can be a Ghibelline pope, and Dante's Ghibellines have at last triumphed.”

Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) American theologian

“Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.”

Jane Jacobs book Dark Age Ahead

“There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.”

Gilbert Parker (1862–1932) Canadian novelist and British politician

“The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

“Have faith in creator of this universe believe that he is omnipresent and Supreme power.”

Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism

“Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.”

Brooke Fraser (1983) New Zealand singer and songwriter

“Some of us have young faith, some broken faith, and some mature faith.”

John Townsend (1952) Canadian clinical psychologist and author

“Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice