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Karen Armstrong has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have…
— Karen Armstrong
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of…
— Marc Chagall
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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad…
— Harold Rosenberg
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
— Oscar Wilde
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…
— Patti Smith
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Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad…
— Jane Lynch
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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
— Damien Hirst
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Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.
— Sherwood Anderson
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In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the…
— Brigid Brophy
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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing…
— George Bernard Shaw
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When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
— Tom Robbins
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