Caleb Ringger

“In reply to a minister's inquiry about the distinguishing doctrine of Mormonism, Joseph told him that "we believe the Bible, and they do not." It was the power of the Bible that Joseph and the visionaries sought to recover. Not getting it from the ministry, they looked for it themselves.”
― Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

“Nothing perhaps distinguishes modern masses as radically from those of previous centuries as the loss of faith in the last judgment: the worst have lost their fear, and the best have lost their hope.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Racism may indeed carry out the doom of the Western world and, for that matter, of the whole of human civilization. When Russians have become Slavs, when Frenchmen have assumed the role of commanders of a force noire, when Englishmen have turned into "white men," as already for a disastrous spell all Germans became Aryans, then this change will itself signify the end of Western man. For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Why do you hate the South?"

"I dont hate it," Quentin said, quickly, at once, immediately; “I dont hate it,” he said. I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!” ”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!