Thomas Klestil quotes

The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will be a fundamental part of our social life. Without tolerance there is no religious liberty, no freedom of conscience and no freedom of thought.
-- Thomas Klestil

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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.