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"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
History
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
Funny
"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
Religion
"Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?"
Love
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
American
"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
Society
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
Religion
"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."
Religion
"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
Disappointment
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
Superiority
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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Personal Development
"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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Personal Development
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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Personal Development
"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."
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Personal Development
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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Personal Development
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
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Personal Development
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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Personal Development
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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Personal Development
"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
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Personal Development
"I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint."
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Personal Development
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