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“I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.”

People Want Doe Soul Earth Order Religious Teach Fate Ignorance Masters Becoming Mass Capable Concerned Hunger Satisfied Civilized Captains Filth

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of 'family.”

Men Doe Self Reason Today Purpose Religious Hunger Oneself Selfishness Revival Resonance

Author:Betty Friedan

“If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?”

Ifs Needs Law Passion Names Social Born Religious Behavior Greed Hunger Obvious Envy Lust Narcissism Secular Meanness Anti Social

Book:A Dark Time in America

Source: A Dark Time in America

“... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.”

“War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.”

Knows War Religious Ignorance Despair Hunger Barriers

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.”

Feels Kind Doe Ends Home Faith Religious Keys Longing Add Hunger Disappointment Temporary Something Better Homesickness Belittle

Book:Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud