“The motherland is an altar, not a platform.”
La patria es ara, no pedestal.
As quoted in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002) translated by Esther Allen, p. xxi
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“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
The Count, in Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, "Second Dialogue," (1821).
“Prejudice supports thrones, ignorance altars.”
Vorurteil stützt die Throne, Unwissenheit die Altäre.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 65.
“Jesus Christ will appear with me on the platform…”
April 2, 2000 on Trinity Broadcasting Network, Hinn claimed Jesus will appear with him at a fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya in 2000. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUHpiRyUsVM
Quotes, The Assault on Reason (2007)
Context: Fortunately, the Internet has the potential to revitalize the role played by the people in our constitutional framework. It has extremely low entry barriers for individuals. It is the most interactive medium in history and the one with the greatest potential for connecting individuals to one another and to a universe of knowledge. It's a platform for pursuing the truth, and the decentralized creation and distribution of ideas, in the same way that markets are a decentralized mechanism for the creation and distribution of goods and services. It's a platform, in other words, for reason. But the Internet must be developed and protected, in the same way we develop and protect markets — through the establishment of fair rules of engagement and the exercise of the rule of law. The same ferocity that our Founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the Internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic. We must ensure that the Internet remains open and accessible to all citizens without any limitation on the ability of individuals to choose the content they wish regardless of the Internet service provider they use to connect to the Web. We cannot take this future for granted. We must be prepared to fight for it, because of the threat of corporate consolidation and control over the Internet marketplace of ideas.
“A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.”
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 7 : Buying a good used platform
“Altars are trimmed, and the poor suffer the bitter pangs of hunger.”
in Man on His Own (1970), p. 120
“I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.”
On the progress with debt ceiling negotiations. USA Today (July 23, 2011): Debt talks crisis: Boehner, Obama trading blame http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-07-22-obama-boehner-debt-talks_n.htm?csp=34news
2011, Remarks on the economy (July 2011)
“The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood”
Written in his Journal, Dec 1796, and one of O'Connell's most well-known quotes. Quoted by O'Ferrall, F., Daniel O'Connell, Dublin, 1981, p. 12