"The government to you is what God is……" — Amitav Ghosh
"The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake."
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10 Quotes by Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh has 10 quotes on this site.
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To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to…
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You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But,…
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If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license…
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...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs,…
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What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and…
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(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their…
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How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and…
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[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings ---…
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I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that…
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More Agnostics Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith…
— William Jennings Bryan
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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
— John Hagee
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that…
— Galen Strawson
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We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to…
— Barack Obama
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Agnostics are just atheists without balls.
— Stephen Colbert
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Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews,…
— Malcolm X
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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the…
— Mother Teresa
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know…
— Yann Martel
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His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who…
— J. G. Ballard
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The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.
— Lee Strobel
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