"The worship of words is more pernicious than……" — Robert Dale Owen
"The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry."
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Robert Dale Owen
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24 Quotes by Robert Dale Owen
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There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to…
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The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to…
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After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is…
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We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
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Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
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It is idle to await unanimity.
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Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
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Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
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Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves…
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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless…
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In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the…
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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as…
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What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to…
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own…
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And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country…
— Sharron Angle
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged…
— Polycarp
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I…
— Isaac Newton
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
— Martin Luther
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all…
— Tertullian
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry.…
— Tertullian
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