Crime Quote by Frances Wright Download Open image “The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.” — Frances Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Misery Religion World
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
Religion in its true sense is the most joyous thing the human soul can know, and when the real religion is realized, we will… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and… — Paul Scherrer Copy Share Image
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
