Quotes 261 till 280 of 348.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
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The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
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There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at once, any savage races lacking either in the scientific attitude or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.
Source: Magic, Science and Religion (1925)― Bronislaw Malinowski
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
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