Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.
Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
