Dorothy Day Quotes - Page 8

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so very loose have become those of "Christian" people.

We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

Man is not meant to live alone.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

There could be a 'community of communities' rather than a state. They would be united in some way but without any governing body. It would be made up of unions, credit unions instead of banks. There would be no more lending at interest. There would be no more money lenders.

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.