Legitimises Quotes & Sayings

And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed. — Guy Gavriel Kay

Christianity is the gayest religion, you know. Its core commandment to men is to form a deep lifelong partnership with ANOTHER MAN. It demands real man-on-man, man-on-Jesus love action, no holds barred. It's the most homophilic religion in the universe. — Joe

I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground. — Brenna Yovanoff

This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel, there would have been no patriarchs, no prophets, no apostles, no Bible and no Saviour. In John 4:22, Jesus Himself summed all this up in one simple statement: "Salvation is from the Jews." Christians from all other racial backgrounds owe to the Jewish people a spiritual debt which can never be calculated. — Derek Prince

An infantryman can fight only if somebody else delivers him to his zone; in a way I suppose pilots are just as essential as we are. — Robert A. Heinlein

Success is seasonal. — Jayme K.

Poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone. — Muhammad Yunus

Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow. — Geoff Mulgan

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal. — Mark Twain

Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies. — Terry Pratchett

religion is created by humans rather than by gods, and it is defined by its social function rather than by the existence of deities. Religion is anything that confers superhuman legitimacy on human social structures. It legitimises human norms and values by arguing that they reflect superhuman laws. Religion — Yuval Noah Harari