Bill Hice

“Is it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system?” “You try.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin