"Religious people often prefer to be right rather……" — Karen Armstrong
"Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity."
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105 Quotes by Karen Armstrong
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
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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…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which…
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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…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which…
— Karen Armstrong
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned…
— Harry Browne
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly…
— Harry Browne
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with…
— George Washington Carver
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires…
— Chanakya
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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things…
— Pema Chodron
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In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend…
— Harry Browne
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If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
— Hasdai ibn Shaprut
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The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization…
— Unknown Author
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Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality,…
— Marla Ruzicka
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