I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Alchemy is the name of this temple of images. Here a towering wall of video flashes glamorous vamps and alien androgynes over… — Karen D. Best Copy Share Image
Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
When Teddy Roosevelt was around, there was an Ottoman Empire. There was a Habsburg empire. They controlled millions of people across Africa,… — Todd G. Buchholz Copy Share Image
For me, glamour was always an escape. When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic. When she was… — Amanda Lepore Copy Share Image
For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
My ritual it's kind of an involuntary ritual. I lie awake the night before, worrying about award ceremony. Try and think of… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the… — William Bridges Copy Share Image
To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the court system, at least I do not think it is especially good at finding the truth.… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Religious ritual invariably offers a sacrificial display of commitment to supernatural agents that is materially costly and emotionally convincing. Such ritual conveys… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“As the interpretation of reality by the power structure, ideology is always subordinated ultimately to the interests of the structure. Therefore, it… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will,… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago.… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I try and get on my yoga mat at least three times a week, and if I don't, things start to unravel.… — Sameer Gadhia Copy Share Image
The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
