Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Armstrong

The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims and Jews and cried, "God will's it." That was their battle cry. Obviously God willed no such thing. The Crusaders were simply projecting onto a deity they'd created on their own image and likeness, all their hatred and loathing of these faiths and made it endorse some of their most awful prejudices and lethal prejudices.

Karen Armstrong

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Lynn Barber

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

Suzy Amis

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

Sallust

To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

Sallust

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

Simon Cowell

The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

Walter Sickert

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Daniel Solove

Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.

Lindsey Hunter

Going into the playoffs, our mentality has to be opposed from the regular season -- that we're going to shut you down. We still know we can score. Our identity is defense.

Tom Hall

I think it's about celebrating identity more than trying to teach people about tolerance.

Andrew Jaquith

With more people getting involved, identity management is getting more complicated instead of simpler. A single solution would simplify the process, and all of these offerings do the same things.

Scott Mitic

If we can stop those sales, we will have stopped identity theft as we know it.

Carlos Delgado

I feel like I have my identity back.

David Kim

The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.

David Kim

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

Francis J. Grimke

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Bill Vaughan

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Jena Malone

If they made 'Pride & Prejudice 2,' Lydia would become more of a tragic figure,

Cher

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

Charlotte Lennox

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Charles Lamb

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

Jane Austen

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Jane Austen

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]

Jane Austen

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.