Michael Marpaung > Michael's Quotes

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
― Michael Crichton

“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Religion did not arise out of the need to assure social solidarity, nor were cathedrals built to encourage tourism.
Religion is socially effective not when it adopts socio-political solutions, but when it succeeds in having society be spontaneously influenced by purely religious attitudes”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all.

Bertha: What's that?

Socrates: Philosophy.

Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here.

Socrates: Where are they?

Bertha: In the philosophy department.

Socrates: Philosophy is not department.

Bertha: Well, we have philosophers.

Socrates: Are they dangerous?

Bertha: Of course not.

Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.”
― Peter Kreeft, Socrates Meets Jesus: History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ

“Gvardiol: “The only thing that matters is power. And you must do all you can whether it be lying or killing to achieve it.”

Pep: “You’re wrong! What truly matters is truth. In our actions and in our words. I’ve always known it deep down. That’s why, I seek out the Terrans and their faith. My faith.”
― Michael P. Marpaung, Inquisitor's Promise

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The extermination of their priests, the desecration of their holy sites, and the importation of alien peoples into their lands were unpleasant to be sure. But what they found offensive more than anything was the idea that they were not the masters of their own destiny.”
― Michael P. Marpaung, The Santara Commentaries, Book 1: The Padri

“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."

Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
― The Holy Bible

“White is an identity marker for the deracinated people who have no religion.”
― E. Michael Jones, Ethnos Needs Logos: Why I Spent Three Days in Guadalajara Trying to Persuade David Duke to Become a Catholic

“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
― Augustine of Hippo