PART I: THE BASIC PREMISE
Relationship
Copyright © 1996 Peter McWilliams & Prelude Press
Last Revision: December 2, 1996
Because of the diverse
conditions of humans,
it happens that some acts are virtuous
to some people,
as appropriate and suitable to them,
while the same acts are
immoral for others,
as inappropriate to them.
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
I like white trash cooking.
Cheeseburgers.
The greasier the better.
Mashed potatoes served in a scoop,
a little dent in the top for the gravy.
Drake's Devil Dogs for dessert.
Pure pleasure;
no known nutrient.
ORSON BEAN
I have every sympathy
with the American
who was so horrified
by what he had read
of the effects of smoking
that he gave up reading.
LORD CONESFORD
When, in the name of God, people hold black- and-white beliefs that cut them off from other human beings; when, in the name of God, they give up their own sense of right and wrong; when, in the name of God, they suffer financial deprivation; then, they are suffering from religious addiction.
Tolerance is the positive
and cordial effort
to understand another's
beliefs, practices, and habits
without necessarily sharing
or accepting them.
JOSHUA LIEBMAN
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
REP. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
September 17, 1969
House Select Committee on Crime
The good that
Martin Luther King, Jr. did
remains undiminished.
He was great precisely because,
like other heroes,
he did not allow human weakness
to deter him from
doing great works.
CARL MCCLENDON
If we cannot end our differences,
at least we can help
make the world
safe for diversity.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
If you say a modern celebrity
is an adulterer,
a pervert,
and a drug addict,
all it means is that
you've read his autobiography.
P. J. O'ROURKE
I am an actor.
Of course
I can play a heterosexual!
SIR JOHN GIELGUD
I hope you will have a chance to mention that what the doc said, after I had fainted (first and last time) was that my blood pressure is so low that I should either take a quarter pound of chocolate in mid afternoon, or a Ritalin. Big deal! I doubt, by the way, that a doctor would nowadays say that because some people are affected adversely by Ritalin. But after 30 years, nobody has detected any change in me, haahaaaahaahahahhhaaaaaaa, eeeeeeee, oooooo-ooooooooo oooooo! Now I'm feeling uiqte [sic] fine, as you can see.
Our relations with a good joke
are direct
and even divine relations.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Tolerance comes of age.
I see no fault committed
that I myself
could not have committed
at some time or other.
GOETHE
Fanaticism consists
in redoubling your effort
when you have
forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA