I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“I do not write this in a spirit of sourness or personal disappointment of any kind, nor do I have any romantic… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“In the at least three-thousand-year-old struggle between Pentheus and Dionysus— between popes and dancing peasants, between Puritans and carnival-goers, between missionaries and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
