"The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God."

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Source : Interview with William Dowell, content.time.com. May 10, 1999.

Li Hongzhi

#God Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.”
“Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.”

Source : "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 137), February 1975.
“I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.”
“What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.”
“Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.”
“Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.”
“Do you have any notion of how ***** crazy you are?”
“Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.”

Source : Selected Poems (1973), trans. by D. McDuff p. 129

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