Chores Quote by Christopher Hitchens Download Open image “The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.” — Christopher Hitchens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chores Civilization Culture Religion Taming
“Our religion (the Self’s duty) is to ‘know’ the one who carries out the worldly actions. Doing those activities is not in our hands.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the common people.… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
“Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and… — Swami Bhaskarananda Copy Share Image
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control. — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When men and women get their hands on religion, one of the first things they often do is turn it into an instrument for controlling others, either putting or keeping them “in their place.” The history of such religious manipulation and coercion is long and tedious. It is little wonder that people who have only known religion on such terms… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share
That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other. — Joshua Copy Share Image
I actually recommend as little actual counting as possible in a life partnership. But, when there's a sense of injustice brewing between you, some… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If you can, start your own business while you're working another job so that your bills get paid. Choose something that you love, so… — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that… — Sonja Sohn Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Thinking critically is a chore. It does not come naturally or easily. And if the fruits of such efforts are not carefully displayed to… — Perry DeAngelis Copy Share Image
Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image