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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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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
— Edward Abbey
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag…
— Jean Baudrillard
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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
— Aeschylus
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
— Thomas Paine
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or…
— Iris Murdoch
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Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to…
— Albert Einstein
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish…
— Ambrose
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...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies…
— Karl Marx
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Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority…
— Rajneesh
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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more…
— Unknown Author
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become…
— Freeman Dyson
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence…
— Harold Lasswell
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