"The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries of almost unimaginable terrorism under Europe's Inquisition and the unthinkably sadistic legal murder of nearly nine million women. History doesn't say much very good about God."

-- Barbara G. Walker

#Religious Quotes #War Quotes #Europe Quotes

“[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.”
“The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes ...”
“On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.”
“The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”
“A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.”
“A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.”

Source : Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Rose (1970*). “Frankenthaler”
“What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?”
“Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.”

Source : Philip Doddridge, John Doddridge HUMPHREYS (1839). “Scriptural Hymns ... New and corrected edition, containing many hymns never before printed. Edited ... by ... J. D. Humphreys, etc”, p.232

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