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• In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting.

  Tariq Ali

  Islamic, Self Confidence, World

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• I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

  John Green

  Religious, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts its authority over non-Muslims, unlike Jewish law and unlike canon law, which is why they're slaughtering Christians, they're slaughtering secular Muslims across the Muslim world.

  Pamela Geller

  Christian, Law, Catholic

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.

  Talal Asad

  Islamic, Cutting, Thinking

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.

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• I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house.

  Pauley Perrette

  Growing Up, House, Church

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view.

  Flemming Rose

  Views, Democracy, Different

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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• It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

  Robert Hughes

  Travel, Cathedrals, Dedicated

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• You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.

  Gene Weingarten

  Support, Democracy, Care

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

  Luke Ford

  Littles, Study, Week

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• The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Europe, Civilization

  "The End Of Liberalism?" by Sam Harris, samharris.org. September 19, 2006.

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• Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

  John Gray

  Beach, Atheist, Today

  "The atheist delusion" by John Gray, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• Buddha is the crown jewel of the Indian nation which accepts all ways of worship of all religions. This quality of Hinduism in India was a product of many great spiritual masters chief among them was Buddha. And this is what sustains the secular character of India.

  Narendra Modi

  Spiritual, Motivation, Character

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• I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Mean, Intellectual

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have therefore adopted the new constitution as a secular state where all religious beliefs will be respected.

  Evo Morales

  Religious, Catholic, Belief

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires. There is a beautiful and very radical notion in the bible: Man is made in the image of God, no matter how sick, poor or damaged he is. We should try to transpose this maxim to our secular and constitutional self-image.

  Gotz Aly

  Beautiful, Men, Self

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• In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

  Antoni Tapies

  Religious, Art, Loss

  "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

  John Milton

  War, Soul, Victory

  1652 'To the Lord General Cromwell'.

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• We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

  Newt Gingrich

  Rip, People, Machines

  The Mark Levin Show, ABC Radio Networks, June 24, 2010.

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• We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  Esther Perel

  Religious, Anxiety, Guilt

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• Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

  Karl Jaspers

  Giving Up, Ideas, Community

  Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.61, JHU Press

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• I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

  David Antin

  Sacred, Casual, Vernacular

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• 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.

  John Rawls

  Religious, Ideas, Two

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• Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

  L. Neil Smith

  Wise, Country, Jobs

  "Enquiring Minds and the Oil War". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. July 11, 2010.

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• Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension.

  John Carroll

  Religious, Men, Comfort

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.78, Taylor & Francis

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