Wesley J. Smith quotes

“The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?”
-- Wesley J. Smith

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“Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?”
-- Wesley J. Smith

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“I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.”
-- Wesley J. Smith

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“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

“Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1952). “Music and imagination”, Harvard Univ Pr

“A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.”

“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”

“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

“People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.”

“Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.”

“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”

“When one door opens, so does another one.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios