Religion Politics Quotes - Page 2

• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.401, Courier Corporation

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• People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

  Dave Barry

  Religious, Views, People

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Faith, Christian

  As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Food, Cereal

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• We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

  Mack Sennett

  Sports, Mother, Race

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• Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Abortion, Bitterness, Kind

  "The Way Things Ought To Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, 1992.

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• Across all countries and cultures surfers are connected not by nationality, religion, politics, age … but by their experience riding waves. This is a powerful experience both in the waves themselves and inside each surfer.

  Shaun Tomson

  Country, Powerful, Age

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• We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

  Charles Kingsley

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

  Robin Meyers

  Compassion, Media, Hands

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• Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Suffering, Cogs, Machines

  "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti".

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• Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Im Sorry, Public Opinion, I Am Sorry

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• Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

  Chris Bliss

  God, Race, Soul

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