Daniel Ford

“16Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.”
― Michael D. Coogan, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“(Britain had 84 battleships and battlecruisers, including 35 modern battleships; compared, respectively, with Germany’s 48 and 20 and the United States’s 41 and 18. France, Japan, Italy, Russia, and Austria-Hungary trailed.)”
― Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

“Oh, well, these are night thoughts produced by walking in the rain after two thousand years of Christianity. At least now the birds are well provided for, and the cats and dogs. Every time I pass the concierge’s window and catch the full icy impact of her glance I have an insane desire to throttle all the birds in creation. At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love—just enough to feed the birds.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“He calls religious faith “an attempt to procure a certainty of happiness and a protection against suffering through a delusional remolding of reality . . . and no one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.” Nevertheless, Freud acknowledges that one’s worldview can not only lessen unhappiness, but can also influence the degree of happiness one experiences. He expresses envy that his worldview offers little in this regard.”
― Armand M. Nicholi Jr., The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life