jimmydaniels’s most recent Quotables

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

When in doubt, don't.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased" -- are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket -- to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Before you talk, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

One man with courage makes a majority.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.