"When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then……" — Karen Armstrong
"When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too."
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105 Quotes by Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong has 105 quotes on this site.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
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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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I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
— Tyra Banks
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
— Henry Adams
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them…
— Danny Boyle
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
— Samuel Butler
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With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
— David Byrne
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
— Eric Cantona
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in…
— Amy Chua
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's…
— William J. Clinton
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on…
— Kurt Cobain
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Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
— Jennifer Aniston
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