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.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Troy Diels

We did a good job taking what they were giving us.

Bernie Sanders

We don`t need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

Jonathan Cain

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

Jamie Dixon

You had to win this game. Nobody was giving it to you.

Rob Reiner

You have to give people the pleasure of giving you.

Peter Jackson

Wow, ... You're giving us an incredibly overwhelming night.

Leslie King

The reason for the loss wasn't our inability to score. We're scoring a lot of runs, we're just giving up too many also.

Tim Burton

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Bob Gill

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

David Bentley

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

Cynthia Ozick

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

Peter Selley

This sale will be a truly exceptional event. With the exception of the great spiritual leaders, his influence on Western culture is more profound than any individual who has lived.

Billie Armstrong

We were watching things unfold, surrounded by all that was going on in the news and pop culture. I wanted to say the most controversial (things) I could while still keeping the songs smart and articulate. And there's a sense of humor there, which makes it more inviting than if I were just pointing fingers.

David Holland

We're all delighted to be enshrined in one of the icons of pop culture. Yow! Are we having fun!