Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lars Trier

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Richard Paul Evans

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

Richard P. Feynman

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

Richard Dawkins

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Richard Dawkins

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

Richard Dawkins

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.

Rowland Hill

He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.

Philip Verleger

It could be written so nobody ever has to pay a penny, ... The devil is in the details.

English 14th Century Proverbs

He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

Tryon Edwards

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Robert Capa

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

Tori Amos

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Werner Herzog

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

William Peter Blatty

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

Sam Keller

Pat Tillman is a legend -- he'll never go away. He was a Sun Devil and so are we. That makes it special.

Joe Juraszek

I will have them do movements that are specific to their position. I'm not technical enough when it comes to football. That's for the position coaches.

Anton LaVey

Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

Rose Schneiderman

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

Richard Rodriguez

Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the ecology movement, a symbol of prehistory - we can't see the Indian among us.

Vladimir Lenin

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Sally Ride

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Wilhelm Wundt

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

Yochai Benkler

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.