During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. James Madison , letter to Bradford, January 1774, quoted from Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions. Belgian author, the outstanding exponent of symbolist drama. He won the 1911 Nobel Prize for literature.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. In this play, the old man is looking in on a family who have yet to discover that one of their number has died. Quoted from the Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.