I Quotes
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“If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.”
“If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.”
“if reason ruled the world would history even exist?”
Source: Travels with Herodotus
“If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.”
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“If Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot placate ISIS, how are we ever gonna be able to? And placate is clearly what John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam, and Barack Hussein O and Hillary Clinton think is the only thing we have to do is placate them. Because we’re at fault, see.”
“If records refuse to be broken, shatter them.”
“If Recsk had taught him anything, it was that for those intent on killing, life was the ultimate revenge.”
Source: The Wild Rose
“If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.”
Source: At the Edge of the Orchard
“If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
“If Reggie had any idea of the horny-tinged-with-WTF confusion swirling through me, he showed no sign of it. He was staring as unabashedly at me as I was at him. Though I think his reasons for gaping at me were different. His eyes were all but glued to my dress's low neckline, and to the just-this-side-of-indecent way it hugged my curves. His gaze moved up to my face and then slid down, down, down, before landing, and staying, on my ass.
How long had it been since a man had openly stared at me like this? Like I was someone he found desirable. Like I was something he wanted. I needed to tell him to knock it off, but I couldn't. It was wrong, he was a stranger, but it felt incredible, the way he was looking at me.”
Source: My Vampire Plus-One
“If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis.”
“If reincarnation exists, then I will choose my next character wisely. I will be reborn either as Jesus or a Buddha. I'm tired of being too masculine is this episode.”
“If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.”
“If reincarnation is real, I hope I'm not a human next time. But I don't want to be a dog or cat. Because there are still "cute" ones and "not cute" ones. If I do get reborn, then I, I want to just rock gently on the ocean waves. I want to be a jellyfish.”
Source: Princess Jellyfish 2-in-1 Omnibus, Vol. 1
“If reincarnation is true, then who can explain the increase in population growth?”
“If Reince Priebus is, in fact, the chief of staff and operating as chief of staff, he is the most important staffer the president Donald Trump has. And it is not unusual for a president to set up some competing power centers, as Ronald Reagan did, but there`s nothing like being the chief of staff, which has so much say over what the president reads, who the president sees, who`s the last person the president talks to before he makes a decision.”
“If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.”
“If relationship turn frail, it's time for listening, not just patient hearing”
“If relationships have been pinned down like nails in the wall and do not renew themselves every moment, allowing us to change our mind’s core or improve our world vision, we are like frozen characters that remain only at the stage of “being” and do not develop into the instar of “becoming.” ("Like a frozen image")”
“If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?”
“If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”
“if relativism about ethics and morality were true, then, at the end of many discussions, we. would each have to end up by saying, “From where I stand, I am right. From where you stand, you are right.” And there would be nothing further to say. From our different perspectives, we. would be living effectively in different worlds. And without a shared world, what is there to discuss? People often recommend relativism because they think it will lead to tolerance. But if we cannot learn from one another what it is right to think and feel and do, then conversation between us will be pointless. Relativism of that sort isn't a way to encourage conversation; it's just a reason to fall silent.”
Source: Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
“If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.”
“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?”
Source: Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
“If releasing is hard, people will always find a reason not to release.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?”
“If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.”
Source: Complete Works
“If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.”
“If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.”
“If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.”
“If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.”
“If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
“If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.”
“If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.”
“If religion gets in the way of loving limitlessly; you don’t question the nature of the being. Instead you ask religion, why are you limited in your expression of love?”
“If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.”
“If religion had never existed, what then, would people have killed for in the name of religion? What would a martyr have died for? What would the masses believe in?”
“If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.”
Source: Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society
“If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world”
“If religion has set up the proposition that we are sinners altogether, I set over against it the other: we are perfect altogether! For we are, every moment, all that we can be; and we never need be more.”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'”
“If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created, Confucianism plainly does not qualify. But perhaps what we are to learn from this tradition is not that Confucianism is not a religion but that not all religious people parse the sacred and the secular the way Christians do.”
Source: God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
“If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?”
“If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.”
“If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?”
“If religion is the cornerstone of morality, how come I so often find myself explaining why I don’t hate god to someone who’s expressed hatred for atheists, scientists, feminists, gays, intellectuals, and all other forms of infidels?”
“If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.”
“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.”
Source: White Teeth
“If religion is true, one must believe. And if one chooses not to believe, one’s choice is marked under the category of a refusal, and is thus never really free: it has the duress of a recoil.” With literary belief, however, “one is always free to choose not to believe.” This, Wood argues, is the freedom of literature; it is what constitutes its “reality.”
Source: The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief