This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
It is not strange at all that the spread of divorce in a society is accompanied by a diminishing of public morality in all sectors… True love does not exist if it is not faithful. And it cannot exist if it is not honest. Neither can it be in the concrete vocation of matrimony if there is no full promise that lasts until death. Only indissoluble matrimony will be firm and lasting support for the familial community.
Death | Love | Matrimony | Morality | Promise | Public | Society | Will | Society |
Our flag stands for "liberty and justice for all." Our flag must never be misused or defiled as a bandana for war crimes, as a gag against the people's freedom of speech and conscience or as a fig leaf to hide the shame of charlatans in high public office, who violate our Constitution, our laws and our founding fathers' framework for accountable, responsive government.
Conscience | Freedom of speech | Freedom | Government | Justice | Liberty | Office | People | Public | Shame | Speech | War |
The pulpit is in more danger of selling its freedom through catering to the public than of losing its liberty through government pressure.
Danger | Freedom | Government | Liberty | Public | Government | Danger |
The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out: the public and the private element, like north and south, like inside and outside, like centrifugal and centripetal, adhere to every soul, and cannot be subdued except the soul is dissipated. God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
God | Heart | Heaven | Nature | Public | Religion | Soul | God |
Richard Feynman, fully Richard Phillips Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Nature | Public | Reality | Technology |
Robert Kennedy, fully Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Robert Ingersoll, fully Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
Hypocrisy | Men | Public | Success | Superstition |
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
Society - the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world’s university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.
Ambition | Character | Church | Equality | Government | Ideas | Merit | Opinion | Power | Public | Sense | Society | World | Government |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
If the intellectual has any function in society, it is to preserve a cool and unbiased judgment in the face of all solicitations to passion... During the war, the ordinary virtues, such as thrift, industry, and public spirit, were used to swell the magnitude of the disaster by producing a greater energy in the work of mutual extermination.
Energy | Industry | Judgment | Passion | Public | Society | Spirit | Thrift | War | Work |
C. Wright Mills, fully Charles Wright Mills
Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues – and in terms of the problems of history-making. Know that the human meaning of public issues must be revealed by relating them to personal troubles – and to the problems of the individual life.
History | Individual | Life | Life | Meaning | Problems | Public | Troubles |