Character Quote by June Jordan Download Open image ““What is the moral meaning of our own gods?”” — June Jordan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character
“We make our own gods for our own purposes. And we love them, and that’s the whole point.” — David Shoemaker Copy Share Image
“The freedom to choose our own gods should be the fundamental right of every human being.” — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards.… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
“cultures define their gods when they’re young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“My personal view is that there are many gods, and when we organize and rank them, we go too far, we ask too much… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“People create their own gods so that they could compete with other people's gods. It is not the humanity that fights but human gods.… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
“We are the only creators, the only gods. Guilty gods, negated gods, damaged, schizophrenic gods, but above all self- changing gods.” — John Holloway Copy Share Image
“If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.” — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.” — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
