"There must be no coercion in matters of faith!"

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Karen Armstrong

#Coercion Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless the outstanding quality. For a long time photos have been taken frequently and everywhere, but now photos are taken permanently and everywhere,... What is new is that we can watch them practically in real time.”
“Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.”
“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.”
“I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.”
“Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.”
“I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say you know what, we have to face it. Otherwise this generation will be robbing the next generation of their future, and that's immoral and unethical.”
“Start small, think big. Donâ€™t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.”
“To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.”

Source : ""The Women of 'Roe v. Wade'". First Things, June/July 2003.

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