preposterous assumptions

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."
--Herman Melville

no cognitive dissonance, please

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
--Don Marquis

live and let live

"... it came to me how some Christians seemed to always need to have something or somebody to be against. If it wasn't desegregation, it was women's lib. If it wasn't sex education, it was secular humanism. And if it wasn't one-worlders, it was just plain Democrats. Now it was abortionists and homosexuals who were ruining the country and destroying Christianity. Well, I had more faith in the Lord of Calvin and Knox than to get carried away over that unlikely possibility. He'd been running things since the beginning, and I didn't figure He'd have much trouble keeping a lid on things this day and age."
-- Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, Ann B. Ross