“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…

“Sad this new Indiana law can happen in America today. We shouldn’t discriminate against people because of who they love.” Likely presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in a twitter post, decrying a new Indiana law that protects people from being forced…

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States Source Reference Freedom Quotes

“Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.” Ulrich Beck, German Socialist Source Reference http://www.brainyquote.com/search_results.html?q=globalization+&pg=2

“We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends… And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.” Al Gore, saying that climate change deniers should be punished. Climate…

“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Lord Acton, British politician and historian. Source Reference Power Quotes

“We are slowly eroding religion at every opportunity we have…. Probably we should be debating a bill requiring every American to attend a church of their choice on Sunday to see if we can get back to having a moral…

“To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.” Calvin Cooledge, 30th President of the United States. Source Reference Constitution Quotes