The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book. — Jonathan Sumption Copy Share Image
Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at… — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Business is the most powerful institution on earth today. It is more powerful than politics. Business serves us very well in some… — Michael Rennie Copy Share Image
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction,… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs.… — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that… — Robert McAfee Brown Copy Share Image
If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
