Logo
Quote by Thomas Merton
If you want to study the social and political history of modern na

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

Other quotes by Thomas Merton

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton

Category:
good
Author
Thomas Merton
Read Quote

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton

Category:
God
Author
Thomas Merton
Read Quote

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. – Thomas Merton

Category:
Religion
Author
Thomas Merton
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world. – George Galloway

Category:
History

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. – Henry Louis Gates

Category:
History

In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end. – Vivian Hunter Galbraith, An Introduction to the Study of History

Category:
History

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. – Grover Cleveland

Category:
History

Random Quotes

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government. – Steven Hatfill

Category:
Freedom

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, Im gonna hang onto them and theyre gonna fuel my attack. – Charlie Sheen

Category:
work

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Morals

Its not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality. – Rosanna Arquette

Category:
Beauty