"As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God."

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Barbara Brown Taylor

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“But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.”
“Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.”
“Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?”
“Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.”
“Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception.”
“Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.”
“If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.”
“To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.”

Source : Interview with John Richardson, December 1, 1957.

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