"Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian."

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Laurens van der Post

#Christian Quotes #Political Quotes #Organized Quotes

“Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.”
“If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.”
“The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
“For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.”
“Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.”
“I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.”

Source : "CBB Lee Ryan: 'I went on three-day booze binge and ended up crying on a stranger's shoulder'" by Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. January 3, 2014.
“I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.”

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