Jillien

“The greatest ethical test that we're ever going to face is the treatment of those who are at our mercy.”
― Lyn White

“Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Rome herself was no longer new. She had grown old and decrepit. The republic of Cicero had degenerated into the despotism of Caesar. Tyrant after tyrant had seized power at the price of much bloodshed. Devotion to family, hard work, and frugality had been replaced by an addiction to pleasure and power. A welfare state based on conquest and slave labor bought the loyalty of the mob with free bread and gladiator games. The people were all too ready to trade their liberty for creature comforts.”
― Marcellino D'Ambrosio, When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers

“If sarcasm were a virtue, I'd be the most righteous man alive.”
― Simeon Stoychev