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• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays… — Erich Fromm
• Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. — Swami Vivekananda
• As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda
• Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not… — Swami Vivekananda
• One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. — Swami Vivekananda
• Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. — Swami Vivekananda
• The idol is the expression of religion. — Swami Vivekananda
• The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. — Swami Vivekananda
• The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or… — Swami Vivekananda
• The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet. — Swami Vivekananda
• This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of… — Swami Vivekananda
• Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit… — Swami Vivekananda

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