Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
¶ (Attributed)
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Russell Baker (b. 1925) American journalist, author, humorist
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do .…
¶ New York Times (Dec. 1988)
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
¶ The Norton Book of Light Verse, Introduction (1986)
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