Culture Religion Quotes

• In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Believe, Second Chance

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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• Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Philosophy, Science, Technology

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• I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  People, Secret, Different

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Biblical, Past

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Independent, Israel, Population

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• A mind virus is different in that there is no form to it; these are ideas placed in our heads when we are little. We get programmed by well-meaning people like our parents and their parents, our culture, religions and schools. We get conditioned to believe in our limitations and what's not possible.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, School, Ideas

  Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.awaken.com. October 22, 2012.

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• You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

  Henry Rollins

  Destiny, Government, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When it comes to culture, religion and mentality, most Russians identify with Europe.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Europe, Culture, Mentality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Capacity To Love, Fragility

  Jean Vanier (2013). “The Heart of L'Arche: A spirituality for every day”, p.33, SPCK

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• Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Depressing, Criticism, Tradition

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• Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Powerful, Profound, Humanity

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• Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else matters-not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That’s all.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.24, Seal Press

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• The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

  Antonio Damasio

  Art, Memories, Creativity

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• Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.

  Staffan de Mistura

  Mean, Offending, Freedom Of Speech

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• As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village. It is now clear that our future sustainability on this planet calls for radical advances in our rational and human capacities to negotiate the powerful forces between worlds as the human family moves towards a sustainable global civilization.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Powerful, Philosophy, Moving

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• From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.

  William James

  Art, Law, Medicine

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• Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Rights, Violence, Tradition

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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