Pearl Abraham quotes

  • When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.
    -- Pearl Abraham

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  • . . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

  • Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

  • I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

  • Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

  • Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  • Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

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

  • Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

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

  • The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.