“If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it’s inappropriate, we should not demonize those people…

“The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.” Angela Merkel, three time Chancellor of Germany. Source Reference In Maintaining Support for the Euro, Who Speaks for Europe?

“There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States, but…

“What was intended as a shield to protect religious liberty has now become a sword to destroy it. What was intended to defend people of faith against being forced by government, under penalty of law, to affirmatively violate their First…

“It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.” Kofi Annan, former General Secretary of the United Nations Source Reference Globalization: Controversial?

“It is high time we had women bishops. I have been praying and working for this day.” Anglican Archbishop of York John Sentamu, after the ordination service of Libby Lane, the first female bishop of the anglican church, after years…

“Certain communicable diseases have been largely eradicated by immunization policies in this country and we should not allow those diseases to return by foregoing safe immunization programs, for philosophical, religious or other reasons when we have the means to eradicate…

“I’m not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they’re too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt – it is all that battlefield stuff.” Peter Hamill, editor and columnist for the New York Post and…

“It’s pretty bad, the word in a century… I’d say it shattered the record.” Jeff Anderson, snow surveyor for the US Natural Resources Conservation Service, discussing the dismal snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which threatens water supplies for…

“The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.” Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born American sociologist Source Reference The shadows of diversity in globalization, affects for cultural heritage.

“I’m not a Catholic, but I could be persuaded to become one.” Al Gore, in anticipation of the papal encyclical on the environment. Source Reference SXSW: Gore says climate-change deniers should pay political price

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell when he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four (in 1942), a book about the coming totalitarian society. Source Reference…