“It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.” PeopleWantHumansDoeMadeReligionDifferencesClearSurvivalSacredInstinctResponseKillingScriptureCrueltyMade ItOrganizedAcceptableFrailtyOrganized ReligionHuman ThoughtKilling Each OtherHuman FrailtiesSacred Scripture Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.” MindStatesAgeDifferencesPleasureQualityConditionsMusic IsSeasonsSacredDistinctionProductiveTemperSecularAnguish Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion
“I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities...Both are places for people to come together and share.” PeopleTogetherDifferencesChurchShareConflictMajorsSacredSimilarityProfane Author:Martin Scorsese
“It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.” IfsWisdomLawDifferencesWealthNumbersClassPrinciplesOughtActivityMassSacredPropertyPopulationExtremesNeighborFavorsProductiveMultitudesPrivate Property Author:Pope Leo XIII
“Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.” TryingJoyLeadershipDifferencesResponsibilityDemocracyAuthoritySacredEqualityPrioritiesRecognitionObedienceInnateMystic Author:D. H. Lawrence