Daniel Bandrabur

“When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.”
― Noam Chomsky

“because Your loving-kindness is better than life, " behold, my life is but a distraction, and Your right hand upheld me in my Lord, the Son of man, the Mediator between You, [ 1 Timothy 2: 5 ] The One, and us the many—in many distractions amid many things—that through Him I may apprehend in whom I have been apprehended, and may be recollected from my old days, following The One, forgetting the things that are past; and not distracted, but drawn on, not to those things which shall be and shall pass away, but to those things which are before, [ Philippians 3: 13 ] not distractedly, but intently, I follow on for the prize of my heavenly calling, where I may hear the voice of Your praise, and contemplate Your delights, neither coming nor passing away. But now are my years spent in mourning. And You, O Lord, art my comfort, my Father everlasting. But I have been divided amid times, the order of which I know not; and my thoughts, even the inmost bowels of my soul, are mangled with tumultuous varieties, until I flow together unto You, purged and molten in the fire of Your love.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?”
― Noam Chomsky

“The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart”.”
― Robert Murray McCheyne