Quotes About Persons

The concentration of economic wealth and military power that imagines itself to be beyond challenge will inevitably end in violence toward human persons who have nothing more in their favor than their market value.

The men responsible were charged with grand theft. Their original defense, that dolphins are persons (humans in dolphin suits, one defendant said), was quickly thrown out by the judge. I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.

If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.

There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds. This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrous heart.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in the form of a completely satisfying presence. This, then, is the inextinguishable, uncreated reality.

God as a Trinity of persons, available at cacradicalgrace.org.

Look here, Stevens, the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight.' 'We are well prepared, sir.' 'What happens within this house after that may have considerable repercussions.' 'Yes, sir.' 'I mean considerable repercussions. On the whole course Europe is taking. In view of the persons who will be present, I do not think I exaggerate.