I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
JIMMY CARTERI want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
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We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
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This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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