EthixBytes
A Collection of Quotes, Comments, Statistics, and News Items
“There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.”
Machiavelli.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves?”
Richard Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline.
“This nation’s ideals of due process, rule of law, humane interrogation, privacy and government openness are not mere embellishments. They are essential to what we are.”
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, in response to President Obama’s decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
“Average household credit card debt—$5,100. Years it would take to pay off $5000 in credit card debt making minimum monthly payments—46. Percent of American credit card holders who make only minimum monthly payments—48%.
Chicago Tribune.
“The going price to kill a pastor is $250.”
Falz Rahman, chairman of Good News India, on rewards offered by extremist Hindu groups for the killing of Christian leaders in Orissa.
“Since the late 1970s the share of national income going to the top 1% of Americans has doubled and the share for the top 0.1% has tripled. More than 40% of total income goes to the wealthiest 10%—the highest in the last 65 years.”
Christian Century (11/18/08).
“And look what happened. Octuplets. Dear God. . . It is not evil, but she is obsessed with children.”
The mother of Nadya Sulleman, divorced mother of six who gave birth to eight babies (only the second time in U.S. history), all 12 through embryo implantation in vitro.
“Large multiple births are presented on TV shows as a ‘Brady Bunch’ moment. They’re not!”
Dr. Arthur Caplin, bioethics chairman at the University of Pennsylvania, noting the serious and sometimes lethal complications and crushing medical costs with large multiple births.
“My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.”
President Barack Obama, in a TV interview with an Arabic language network (Al Aribiya, 1/27/09).
“To imagine that the U. S. can easily and cheaply invade, occupy and redeem any country in the Muslim world is sheer folly. That holds true in Afghanistan, too.”
Andrew J. Bacevish, retired U.S. Army colonel in Washington Post (10/5/08).
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.”
Quote from Western fiction writer Louis L’Amour, inscribed in the journal given by Michelle Obama to Laura Bush.
