If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.
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Compton Gage
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No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.
If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.
One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.
Though dead is promised to me, when will I slumber, deep? Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.
To be a great warrior is not enough. Flesh and blood, however skilled, can be destroyed... you must be more than just a man in minds of your opponents.
Purity. Serenity... Solitude: What you ought to uphold. But the important thing is whether you believe it.
There is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?' it had been already of old time, which was before us.
It is right that one must come so far to see the world as it is meant to be.
I saw under the sun the place of judgement, _that wickedness was there; And the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. _I said in mine heart, 'Who shall judge the righteous and the wicked:' for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
The harder you search the more troubled you become.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Death does not wait for you to be ready.