The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities. —Theodore M. Hesburgh More about this quote Tags: history religion America race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. —Gregory Bateson More about this quote Tags: war religion science art sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. —Clive Bell More about this quote Tags: religion escape art ecstasy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: war reality beauty religion facts death blood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: religion death animals theology funerals ceremony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Atheists take religion too literally. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb More about this quote Tags: religion atheism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Monetary donations to a spiritual cause, contributions of physical labor, involvement with a particular guru, none of these necessarily mean that we have actually committed ourselves to openness. More likely these kinds of commitments are simply ways of proving that we have joined the side of "right. —Chögyam Trungpa More about this quote Tags: spirituality religion right commitment openness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I go to the gym religiously. About twice a year around the holidays. —Demetri Martin More about this quote Tags: religion holidays gym Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email