Jerry Pyper > Jerry's Quotes

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.”
― Mother Teresa

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
― Mother Teresa

“We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people.”
― Hilary Rodham Clinton

“The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.”
― Hilary Rodham Clinton

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.”
― W.B. Yeats

“In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.”
― Elie Wiesel

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

{Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813}”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
― Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”
― Thomas de Quincey, The Confessions of an English Opium Eater/The Daughter of Lebanon

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
― Yogi Berra

“If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.”
― Yogi Berra

“When you come to a fork in the road take it”
― Yogi Berra

“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”
― Yogi Berra

“The future ain't what it used to be.”
― Yogi Berra

“I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.”
― Yogi Berra

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
― Yogi Berra

“Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's too crowded.”
― Yogi Berra

“Determinists can't help it”
― Jerry DePyper

“Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.”
― Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

“If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.”
― Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul

“Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.”
― Walter Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“The obvious pollution occurring in many places - worst of all, in the planned societies- has encouraged the growth of the environmental movement, which, however, as shown in previous chapters, has an agenda that goes far beyond clean-up and beautification, far beyond the stewardship of nature that is commanded by ancient religious tradition. Embracing the "biospheric vision" in the "spirit of deep ecology", the movement sees human beings as the chief enemy in the struggle on behalf of a deified Nature. The environmental movement, therefore, is the perfect vehicle for population control. It is popular - people do love trees and animals and beautiful scenery - and it is unequivocal in its devotion to reducing human numbers. The environmental agencies of the United Nations, with their chilling blueprints for "demographic transition" and a standardless, undefined but totally planned and controlled "sustainable development", combine the fervor of nature worship with the lack of accountability of an unelected, international bureaucracy.”
― Jacqueline Kasun, The War Against Population: The Economics and Ideology of World Population Control