
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)
Book Two : The Church of Good Society, "The Canonization of Incompetence"
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)
In, Annie Besant Quotes http://www.biographyonline.net/women/quotes/annie-besant-quotes.html
Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. II. "Christianity", p. 21
“Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.”
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 20 cited in: James Ike Schaap (2011) " The Peter Principle: Is This Forty-Year-Old Universal Phenomenon in Decline or Growing? http://www.jgbm.org/page/1%20James%20Ike%20Schaap%20.pdf"
The Paris Review interview (1984)
Context: It’s a play about the life and martyrdom of a modern saint, who has just been canonized by the Church — or is it beatified? Which comes first? I’m not sure. Anyway, his name was Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Pole, and he died in Auschwitz. They were going to send some prisoners to a mine, where they would die of hunger and thirst. Father Kolbe offered to go instead of a man who had a wife and children and didn’t want to die. That man is still alive. … It won’t matter to me at all whether the Church canonizes him or not. The important thing is that such a man existed.
Writings, The Artful Albanian
Source: The Subversion of Christianity (1984), p. 32
Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, U.S. (3 June 1947) http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html
1940s
Context: War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington — not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.
Theological Lectures, No. 5, "Of the Immortality of the Soul", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 514.