Compromise Quote by Steven Pinker

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a…

— Joseph Addison

Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet…

— Max Stirner

“Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic…

— Daniel Jones

“So if we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called spiritual authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we stand alone…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with…

— Learned Hand

On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social…

— Daniel Webster

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

— D. H. Lawrence

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas…

— Salman Rushdie

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

— Barack Obama

“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with…

— Anonymous

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

— Albert Einstein

Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of…

— Jacques Chirac