Gave up Quote by Lenny Bruce Download Open image “I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.” — Lenny Bruce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gave up Inspirational Religion Thinking Time
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I do think that religion has turned a lot of people off. Part of it is because it was all about the rules and… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about conserving a… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way — because it’s had to give so much more ground and because we know… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history. — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share
Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. B'nai B'rith is goyish; Hadassah, Jewish. If you live in New… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.” — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. — George Best Copy Share Image
Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Gracie: "Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington-they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton:… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels. — Jacoby Shaddix Copy Share Image
I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up. — Rebecca Black Copy Share Image
Its okay if you gave up and walked out on me, I gave up on myself a long time ago and I wasn't expecting… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
