"The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Religious Quotes #War Quotes #Buddhism Quotes

“Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.”
“These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.”

Source : Nella Larsen (2013). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.”
“I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see and understand because they keep ignoring the rights of their citizens ... and at this stage there is no other way to affect change, because the authorities have taken hostage of the media, so perhaps this boycott can be a symbol of criticism being voiced.”

Source : "Winter Olympics 2014: Pussy Riot join campaign for Sochi boycott" by Robin Scott-Elliot, www.independent.co.uk. October 17, 2013.
“The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.”

Source : "Absent Presences in Liminal Places: Murnau's Nosferatu and the Otherworld of Stoker's Dracula" by Saviour Catania in Literature Film Quarterly, 2004.
“When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. I take it no less seriously than the band I was in for 15 years; it's just a new place that I'm in. I'm in the Gutter Twins right now and that's what I am. But if I'm a Twilight Singer next year, it will be with no less passion.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!”

Source : Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”
“Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.”

Source : "'Gun Culture' - What About the 'Fatherless Culture'?" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 17, 2013.

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