EthixBytes
A Collection of Quotes, Comments, Statistics, and News Items
“Let facts be submitted to a candid world.”
Legend over the old Houston Post building.
“There is no such thing as a free war.”
Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in his new book The Three Trillion Dollar War, who estimates the Iraq War will cost Americans between $3 trillion and $5 trillion and has taken the lives of 3973 U.S. troops and left 29,300 wounded.
“The courts will decide . . . what the framers meant in the Second Amendment. Whether there was an absolute right to own firearms or whether the framers only intended for that right to be exercised in the context of a militia. Every constitutional right is subject to reasonable regulation.”
Interim Attorney General Peter Nickles, in response to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s (R-TX) attempt to pressure the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns unconstitutional.
“No one goes directly from the Bible to the ballot box.”
The late conservative evangelical leader, Carl F. H. Henry.
“From 1998 to 2000, with a Democratic president and Republican Congress, earmarks rose from $13.2 billion to $17.7 billion. From 2001 to 2006, with a Repubican president in office, they exploded to $29 billion. In 2007, with Congress in Democratic hands, earmarks fell to the 1998 level of $13.2 billion, a 54% drop.”
Response to Dallas Morning News Editorial on earmarks (2/21/08).
“Earmarks represent the triumph of seniority over merit, secrecy over transparency, and the victory of special interests over the national interest.”
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Dallas), one of 18 out of over 500 in Congress who refused to ask for pork barrel projects.
“Show me a 50-foot wall and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder.”
Gov. Janet Napolatano (AZ).
“It will be extremely unlikely that many of us will be virtuous if we live in a vicious society. We need to be concerned, therefore, with the health of our society as well as the health of our souls.”
Robert N. Bellah (Daedalius, Fall 2007).
“In the U.S., prostitution is only very rarely just another career choice. Studies suggest that up to two-thirds of prostitutes have been sexually abused as girls, a majority have drug dependencies or mental illnesses, one-third have been threatened with death by pimps, and almost half have attempted suicide.”
Nicholas Kristof, N.Y. Times.
“In 1974, the U.S. median black income was 63% of that of whites. In 2004 a typical black family income was only 58% of a typical white family’s.”
Brookings Institute Report.
“Ecclesiastical crime in 1800 amounted to $100,000; in 1900 $300,000; in 1970, $5,000,000; in 2000, $16,000,000.000; and in 2008 will rise to $25,000,000,000.”
International Bulletin of Missionary Research (1/08).
“For the first time, more than one in every 100 Americans is behind bars, more than any country in the world—more than China, which has a far greater population and eight times that of Germany.”
PewCenter on the States (2/28/08).
“44 percent of American adults are not in the religious tradition of their upbringing or have moved out of the religious orbit altogether. [Often] the temptation is to move from pew to pew until we find one that no longer demands what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called The Cost of Discipleship.”
Dallas Morning News editorial in response to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life study.
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. We need to go far, quickly!”
Vice President Al Gore, in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture.
“They’ve been overparented, overindulged and over protected. They haven’t experienced that much failure, frustration, pain. We were so obsessed with protecting and promoting their self-esteem that they crumble like cookies when they discover the world doesn’t revolve around them.”
Columnist Cheryl Hall on Millennials (born 1981 to present).
“Evidence of global warming is substantial and the threat is too grave to wait for perfect knowledge about whether, or how much, people contribute to the trend. . . Our cautious response to these issues in the face of mounting evidence may be seen by the world as uncaring, reckless and ill-informed. We can do better.”
A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change, signed by the president of the SBC and a group of leaders.
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, and shouts to us in our pain—it is God’s megaphone to a deaf world.”
C. S. Lewis
