Thoughtful Thursday

"Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocritical moralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such."
- Georg Hegel

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
- George Bernard Shaw

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
- Edmund Burke

"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."
- Margaret Thatcher

"Where there is great love there are always miracles."
- Willa Cather

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
- William Hazlitt

"Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks ever in the most unlikely swim."
- Ovid