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"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."
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"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
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"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."
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"Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely - held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats."
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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
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"Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us."
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"What fueled this hatred? Society."
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"A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination."
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"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
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"When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after."
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"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
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"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you."
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"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
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"Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present."
Time
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
People
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."
Religion
"Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life."
Conflict
"Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it."
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"To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead."
Travel
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