Etymology Of Religion Quotes & Sayings

The word 'sin' is derived from the Indo-European root 'es-,' meaning 'to be.' When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, 'to be' in the fullest sense is 'to sin'. — Mary Daly

Does a banquet really need an asparagus server?" "Does an orchestra need a bassoon? — Amor Towles

According to reliable and never-named sources in the hospital, my situation was critical, then desperate, then critical but stable, then just stable, then uncertain, then (for twelve hours) improving, then uncertain again and then steadily bleaker with each passing day until everyone agreed that there was very little chance of my ever waking up. At that point I woke up, escaping the cul-de-sac into which I'd been written. — Gavin Extence

'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener. — Joshua Cohen

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism. — Hugo Chavez

The accepted etymology of the word religion was that it came from religere, meaning "to bind together," but Cicero had said its true root was relegere, "to reread." The truth was, she liked both answers. — James S.A. Corey

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration? — Jack Norris

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time. — Mary Kay Ash

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are ... the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community. — Radhika Coomaraswamy

Be a man with living principles within; never bow to the varying customs of worldly wisdom. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

People are not even going to have time to listen to radio in their cars because they are going to be talking on their phones or twittering, or BBM'ing. So I feel like the only time people are going to hear music is when your phone rings, so that's the whole market I'm going after. — Spencer Pratt

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. — Bill Ayers

He found it difficult to discuss any of his activities, which seemed to him no more than the hole through which he was falling. — Peter Ackroyd

If you don't fall down now and again, it just means the training wheels are working — Josh Stern

I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent. — Ross McKitrick