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“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?”
― Augustine of Hippo, Select Letters

“But Nature granted to gold and silver no function with which we cannot easily dispense. Human folly has made them precious because they are rare. In contrast, Nature, like a most indulgent mother, has placed her best gifts out in the open, like air, water and the earth itself; vain and unprofitable things she has hidden away in remote places.”
― Thomas More

“Forgive me,' said Abbot Zerchi. 'I wasn't getting ready to argue moral theology with you. I was speaking only of this spectacle of mass euthanasia in terms of human motivation. the very existence of the Radiation Disaster Act, and like laws in other countries, is the plainest possible evidence that governments were fully aware of the consequences of another war, but instead of trying to make the crime impossible, they tried to provide in advance for the consequences of the crime. Are the implications of that fact meaningless to you, Doctor?”
― Walter M. Miller Jr.

“We are able to overcome grievances towards others when we understand that everyone is acting from their own fallible experiences in life. You can only react to anything, from your own storage of life experience that's happened to you thus far. No one can possibly react to anything beyond their own personal storage box of life. That's why it's bound to be fallible, bound to hurt someone else who's coming from somewhere else, and that's also why sometimes something explodes! Nothing is ever personally about us. We all look back ten years later and then see what we could have said or done differently. Better. It's the same way for everybody, and that's how we can let things go.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Thi Erfarenhed viser, at, naar een først haver bragt sig udi Reputation, helst blant dumme og vankundige Folk, kand han siden ikke alleene binde dem paa Ærmerne hvad han vil, men end og forfremme sin Lærdom ved de selsommeste og uriimeligste Fictioner; efterdi Menneskerne ofte holde det for en Merite at troe hvad som strider mod Fornuften, anseende simpel og klar Lærdom som menneskelig, men uforstaaelig som guddommelig.”
― Ludvig Holberg, Epistler

“The devil invites mankind to rebellion and disorder. With his litany of subterfuges, he sows discord and incites us to pour out our hatred upon each other. "Old Scratch" always makes noise and a lot of racket so as to prevent us from resting in God. The devil will not be able to reach us in the stronghold of silence. Let us guard against multiplying sins by satisfying our little egotistical or revolutionary passions.”
― Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise