Best political & religious Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.”

World Country Political Universe Religious Media Fields Members Highest Mass Intellectual Research Rate Stupidity Artistic Appeals Scholar Judicial Moron Mass Media Best Place

Author:William C. Brown

“Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.”

People Sometimes Reason Political Choices Born Religious Economic Pure Adults

Author:Jacques Pepin

“There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.”

Different Political Culture Religious Loss Poverty Despair Rivers Gender Fanaticism Repression Apartheid

Author:Lawrence Wright

“Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.”

People Persons Political Easy Religious Brain Opinion Share Influence Tasks Everyday Deeper Senses Sense Of Humor Rooted Closest Best Friend Factions Closest Friends Political Opinions

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.”

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Author:Lois Lowry

“What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.”

Political Religious Movement Source Chains Als Al Qaeda Open Source Political Movements Supply Chain

Author:Thomas Friedman

“An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.”

Firsts Political Religious Please Affair Civil Rights Guarantees Amendments Minimum Unconditional First Amendment Public Affairs First Amendment Rights

Author:Hugo Black

“We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.”

“The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.”

Political Individual Religious Liberty Support Fit Chinese Agendas Communist Civil Liberties Religious Freedom Political Agendas It Support

Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.

“The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.”

Men Country Political Religion Nations Religious Mark Sentiments Denominations Liberality

Book:The Papers of George Washington

Source: The Papers of George Washington

“A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.”

Political Strong Religious Subjects Delusion Fanatics Fanaticism

Author:Richard Whately

“I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are or what they are or where they come from or what their religious beliefs are. But for me to base all of my decisions based on my reading of the Holy Bible just isn't going to happen.”

Thinking Matter Happens Political Reading Belief Process Voice Religious Decision Opinion Citizens Holy Bible Locals Religious Belief Holy Bible

Author:Tim Scott

“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”

Mind Humans Political Politics Social Religious Society Claims Injustice Human Mind Divided Human Society Social Service

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions. It is a wicked thing either to support or oppose a man because of the creed he possesses. . . . Such a movement directly contravenes the spirit of the Constitution itself.”

Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part

“I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up.... Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State.”

“The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.”

Two Important Different Government Faces Political Differences Church Religious Duty Office Ideals Realms Subtle Religious Faith Implementation

Book:The Jimmy Carter Library

Source: The Jimmy Carter Library

“If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age.”

Ifs Years Two Age Political Next Religious Economic Shapes Ten Clothes Pressure Notion Architecture Hats Two Years Significance Accurate Interiors Next Year Decoration

Author:James Laver

“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”

Long Feelings Political Religious Enemy Movement Lessons Instinct Rely Motive Attempting Agitation Obstruction

Book:Practical Agitation

Source: Practical Agitation

“The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.”

World Looks Self Facts Political Process Religious Behinds Foundation Disaster Satisfied Realising Arrogant Creeds Uneasy Dissolution

Author:John Buchan

“Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.”

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Author:Lord Acton

“In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.”

Men Humans Political Culture Courses Names Individual Interest Religious Gone Trouble Evolution Unique Endless Commit Dogma Efficiency Outrage Religious Dogma

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.”

May Littles Political Differences Religious Taught Depends Method Doctrine Being True Propaganda Employed Effectiveness Pernicious True Or False

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.”

Way Ends Political Energy Church Religious Levels Attitude Imagine Groups Members Army Primaries Manifestation Organized Unconscious Fascists Suitable Indirect Mediation Embracing Love

Author:Theodor Adorno

“That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.”

“The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.”

States Political Religious Guarantees Paradox Secular Elegant Simplest Pluralism Pluralism Is

Book:Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Source: Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

“His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

“A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.”

Political Social Religious Periods Civilization Members Benefits Entity Uniformity

Book:Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

Source: Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

“Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.”

Has Beens Home Political Religious Security Commitment Objectives Pursue Factors Security And Freedom

Author:Preston Manning

“The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.”

Political Social Religious Levels Development Intellectual Social Development Holding Back

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.”

“Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.”

“There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.”

“The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.”

Knows Firsts Humans Political Order Religious One Thing Produce Torture Working It Confession Human History Accuracy Dissidents

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.”

Christian Political Religious Economic Century Military Sticks Jew Buddhist Brotherhood Intolerance Preaching Oppressed Pagan Jehovah Toleration Religious Intolerance Economic Power

Author:Isaac Bonewits

“People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practising your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.”

People Faces Political Differences Religious Issues Happenings Statements Religious Freedom Framing

Author:Pat Condell

“If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today”

Ifs Men Way Might Age Today Political Religious Ability Moral Principles Middle He Man Comfort Prejudice Middle Ages Discomfort Medieval Filth Sofas Craftsman Armchairs Ability To Change

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.”

Humans States Political Purpose Religious Sacrifice Altars Political Freedom

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.”

Persons Political Religious Authority Catholic Suspects Patriotic Loyal Pope Allegiance Battlefields Objections Emancipation British History

Author:Linda Colley

“The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.”

“Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.”

“Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.”

Political Religious Atheism Policy Conviction Positive Atheism Campaigns Public Policy Political Campaign Dictating

Book:Ferraro: My Story

Source: Ferraro: My Story

“I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.”

Made Character Political Desire Religious Atheism Remains Positive Atheism Occasions Demonstration

Author:Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

“Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.”

Political Causes Interest Religious Liberty Morality Enthusiasm Irresistible Puritan

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'”

“All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.”

Mind Humans Political Religious Roots Intense Human Mind Autonomy Innate Conservatism

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible; on the political side, the Constitution.”

Humans Spiritual Political Sides Religious Democracy Highest Constitution Foundation Conviction Human Life Republic Trends Revival Embodiment Sacredness Bedrock

Author:Herbert Hoover

“The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.”

Way Hard Political Religious Leader Doubt Movement Position Authority Casts Revolutionary Rising Islamic Regimes Academic Tides Competence Khomeini

Author:Yousef Saanei

“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.”

“It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.”

“I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

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