Religious Leaders Quotes - Page 3

• If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Girl, Religious, Boys

  Ruhollah Khomeini's speech on the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, World Service, October 26, 1964.

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• I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.

  Goldie

  Religious, People, Joy

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• We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

  Eustace Mullins

  Running, Religious, War

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• But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use

  Emma Thompson

  Religious, Sex, Uganda

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• The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use

  Emma Thompson

  Education, Religious, Condom Use

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• Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Dog, Lying

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• It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.

  Khem Veasna

  Religious, Real, People

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• I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

  Dar Williams

  Religious, Leader, Parent

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• Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.

  William F. Schulz

  Religious, Prayer, Powerful

  William F. Schulz (1992). “Finding time & other delicacies”

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• We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.

  Abul Kalam Azad

  Religious, Communication, Leader

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• This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

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• I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Winning, Leader

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Leader, Egotism

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• For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.

  Donald Trump

  Religious, Leader, Persons

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Nice, Fall

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I have to be able to implement a policy that doesn't completely erase borders and boundaries. Not because I think that Honduran child who's gotten here is less worthy of love, attention, opportunity than my child, but because I'm the president of the United States of America and I'm not speaking as a religious leader.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as easy as most people think, certainly, the great religious leaders would have been rather naive.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess

  Ian Christie

  Religious, Teaching, Future

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• All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

  Martha Beck

  Spiritual, Teacher, Religious

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• The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Fear, Selfish

  "The Elders Speak: Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter And Mary Robinson". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 04, 2010.

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• Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?

  Arthur Keith

  Religious, Science, Men

  Sir Arthur Keith (1927). “Concerning man's origin: being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, and recent essays on Darwinian subjects”

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• The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Atheist, Mean

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• No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Men, Names

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• All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania... is as priceless as genius.

  Ian Fleming

  Religious, Men, Goal

  "Dr. No". Book by Ian Fleming, ch. 15: Pandora's Box, 1958.

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• The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.

  Brennan Manning

  Religious, Confused, Lying

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