War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The dangerous glorification of the nation state, and the baiting of minorities that goes along with it, releases an anti-democratic energy. — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of… — Jamey Johnson Copy Share Image
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called… — Bernardine Dohrn Copy Share Image
Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
