“In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.” YearsMindHumansStatesUseOpinionJudgmentConceptsPatternsLabelsCollectivesHuman MindPossessedConditioning Author:Eckhart Tolle
“As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.” TwoCountryStatesCharacterGovernmentChristianLawNationsReligiousUnitedOpinionUnited StatesProductsHarmonyAtheistTranquilityEnmityInterruptionsPretextTwo CountriesChristian Nation Author:John Adams
“I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.” MenEndsStatesChristianOpinionVicesPunishmentDoctrineRationalReincarnationRebirthPious Author:William Jones
“Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.” StatesRememberMotherFatherWealthOpinionPrinciplesLandMembersConsequenceLaborKillingActive Author:William Petty
“The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.” StatesLawNationsOpinionCryLawyer Book:A Philosophical Dictionary Source: A Philosophical Dictionary
“The people who are doing really well and who are getting stopped in airports are the people who are going to say the more outrageous things and get on TV and state their opinion on a regular basis.” PeopleWellsStatesOpinionTvsBasesAirportsOutrageous Author:Mark Leibovich
“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.” KindStatesThreeNationsPoorUnitedOpinionUnited StatesPiecesMonthsStandardsShameNotionCampaignsAbandonAncestorRepresentativesSpainPettyScornThree MonthsGreat NationsOutragedDecrepit Book:War and Other Essays Source: War and Other Essays
“In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.” StatesAgeChristianityOpinionMiddleConsequenceArgumentPreservesPurityFollyOppositionRidiculeMiddle AgesLoaded Book:The Life and Writings of ... Source: The Life and Writings of ...
“It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.” MenCountryStatesOpinionInformationSpotsTraveled Author:Edmond Francois Valentin About
“Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'” KnowsWorldStatesUnitedOpinionUnited StatesStreetsWallIntegrityNewspapersJournalMuslim WorldWall Street Journal Author:Noam Chomsky