purity quotes

   Cum itaque membris his vilissimis, qu× pro summ× turpitudinis exercitio pudenda vocantur, nec proprium sustinent nomen, me divina gratia mundavit potius quam privavit, quid aliud egit quam ad puritatem munditi× conservandam sordida removit et vitia. When divine grace cleansed rather than deprived me of those most vile members which from their grossly depraved activity are called 'pudenda' ['shameful'], having no proper name of their own, what else did it do but remove filth and foulness so as to preserve unblemished purity?

- Peter Abelard
c.1135  Of his castration. Second letter to He  lo|«  se.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

- H(erbert) A(lbert) L(aurens) Fisher
  History of Europe, ch.1.