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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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All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
— Max Born
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Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be…
— Karen Armstrong
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Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but…
— Peter Kropotkin
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We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the…
— Thomas Berry
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Eventually we have to "settle up" and pay the price for our ethical violations. Just remember the old line that says, "You…
— Price Pritchett
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If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according…
— Edward Bernays
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The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and…
— Albert Martin
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We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we…
— Sam Harris
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines…
— Michael Lerner
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