Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of ...generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people,... his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you -for you were the fewest of all peoples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes...then...Israel will be...come a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must observe them diligently, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these sta...tutes, will say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to your word; for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou has...t prepared in the presence of all peoples, light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to thy people Israel."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we have class and sectarian schools th...e parties supporting them will not give their fullest aid toward building up the public school system. If all of the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money and energies on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. To be a success a republic must have a homogeneous people, and to do this it must have homogeneous schools.... I grow more and more opposed to [sectarian schools].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic i...s a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in--telephonic, technolo...gical and relational--to alter even the slightest bit of behaviour in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »