Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

Alan Watts

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Chogyam Trungpa

Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

Andy Wachowski

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.

Camille Paglia

The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.

David Sylvian

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

Zhang Jianmin's

The self-refinery of Buddhism does not lie in the form of exercise. Not all people sitting in a lotus position can reach real Zen - if they are obsessed by desires. Instead, a pure heart, even during subconscious action, can get sudden enlightenment and the real Zen. It's like Einstein suddenly finds a solution to Relativity when playing violin.

Bertrand Russell

Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When you think of Buddhism, you're likely to think of peace and tranquility.

Edward James Olmos

Education is a vacine for violence

Aasif Mandvi

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Carl Jung

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

Bo Derek

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Betty Williams

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

Masipula Sithole

The violence has not worked. If anything at all, it has backfired.

Benito Mussolini

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Jane Campion

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Jane Goodall

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

Jeff Horner

It was tough to handle. Hopefully, we can justify a lot of things with this Big Ten championship, if we win it.

Dottie Pepper

At this point, she is an untapped talent because there is no track record. No qualifying school, no futures tour. There is a lot that has to be seen. She is going to have to win to justify it. There are a lot of questions that need answers.

Seth MacFarlane

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

John Wesley

It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

Isabel Paterson

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

John Casesa

which is a tough number to justify without tangible results.