Backwards Quote by Thomas Yellowtail

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred…

— Sam Harris

It can be frustrating to see how society has taken the sacred out of everything.

— Ravi Zacharias

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

“nothing is sacred in and of itself...Ideas, texts, even people can be made sacred... the act of making sacred is in truth an event…

— Salman Rushdie

We live in a society where nothing is sacred.

— Yvonne Strahovski

Nothing is sacred, right?

— Mia Kirshner

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

— Mark Russell

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

— Carroll Quigley

We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives,…

— Sigmund Freud