Expediency Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt Download Open image “Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand” — Friedrich Durrenmatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expediency Hand in hand Hands Political Politics Religion
“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ultimately it is the faith that suffers. Compromise may work in politics. It's less appropriate to the realm… — Randall Balmer Copy Share
“More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a… — John Morris Roberts Copy Share Image
“Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.” — Dan Santos Copy Share Image
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars and electing… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Religion has been raising human consciousness for centuries. Whatever man is now, whatever little consciousness he has, the whole credit goes to religion. Politics has been a curse, a calamity; and politics is responsible for whatever is ugly in humanity. But the problem is that politics has power; religion has only love, peace and experience of the Divine. Politics has… — OSHO Copy Share
“Religion and politics are inseparable because the values of our faith should inform what we value in our politics. They both seek to answer… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them… — Friedrich Dürrenmatt Copy Share Image
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and,… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do… — Francis Landey Patton Copy Share Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
