Claude Montefiore quotes

“How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even in the justice of God is a mystery indeed.”
-- Claude Montefiore

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“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.”

“You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.”

Source : Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

“Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”

“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”

“Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.”

“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”

“Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.”

“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.

“Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.”