Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

Martin Amis

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

Pope John Paul II

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

Pierre Charron

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

Pope Francis

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

Primo Levi

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Plutarch

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Nathaniel Branden

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

Paula Poundstone

I happen to be a devout atheist. I don't believe in God. I still go to church -- I'm not a heathen. I go to an atheist church. We have crippled guys who stand up and testify that they were crippled, and they still are.

Oswald Chambers

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

John Dewey

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

John Dewey

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

John Dewey

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

John Dewey

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

John Dewey

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

John Dewey

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

John Dewey

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

John Calvin

If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theodore L. Cuyler

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

Theodore Bikel

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Margaret Sanger

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Kevin VanDam

In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds.

Matthew Henry

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.