"There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners."

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Source : Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

Steve Allen

#Prayer Quotes #People Quotes #Religion Quotes

“Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.”
“Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.”
“THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND OUR SHARED HUMAN CONDITION, IN ALL ITS VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH.”
“It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.”
“My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home”
“I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day”
“When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.”
“Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.”

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