Quotes of: David-bowie Keyword

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Heinrich Heine

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

H. L. Mencken

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Herbert Read

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Joyce Carol Oates

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Michel Houellebecq

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

Michael Moorcock

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Richard Dawkins

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

Salman Rushdie

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Walter Savage Landor

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

E. M. Forster

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Fiona Apple