"We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action."

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Source : Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

Stephen L. Carter

#Christian Quotes #Religious Quotes #Self Quotes

“My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.”
“I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world,”
“The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.”
“The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.”
“I like fighting because it's honest.”
“Anti-Catholicism has always been the ***** of the Puritan.”
“Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.”
“Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others...”

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