I'm actually an evangelical atheist but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material and that's a creepy thing to do.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian were not nature too strong for it.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves chearful meadows and high distant forests which in grand order presented themselves to view.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

The mountains the forest and the sea render men savage they develop the fierce but yet do not destroy the human.

I know war as few other men now living know it and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.