Religion Quote by Richard Hofstadter

“You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

— Günter Grass

“We are presently dealing with the accumulation of a whole society that has worshiped its light side and refused the dark, and this residue…

— Robert A. Johnson

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have…

— Susan Sontag

“Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.”

— Niall Ferguson

“When we commit to waking up and revolting against the ignorance and oppression of classism, racism, sexism, and all forms of greed, hatred, and…

— Noah Levine

“As Americans, we have marched a long way down the soul-destroying road of socialism, atheism, and totalitarianism. It is the price we pay when…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our…

— Florence Luscomb

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much…

— John Stuart Mill

“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just”

— William T. Vollmann

“Hence the American heritage and founding principles must be thrust aside if there is to be human progress. They are dismissed as outmoded and…

— Mark R. Levin

“The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland. Along the edge of a nation's territory, its real prejudices,…

— Derek Lundy

“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar