Wholesale Religion Quotes & Sayings

You can scream you're Indian, you can disavow your religion, you can even be the next incarnation of Krishna for all your Hindu countrymen will care. Their HRM will pull down your pants and check your foreskin and slaughter you just the same. — Manil Suri

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them. — Aristotle.

What is the alternative to religion as we know it? As it turns out, this is the wrong question to ask. Chemistry was not an "alternative" to alchemy; it was a wholesale exchange of ignorance at its most rococo for genuine knowledge. We will find that, as with alchemy, to speak of "alternatives" to religious faith is to miss the point. — Sam Harris

She would always be careful around people like Parley Burns, tricky people who are thin skinned and punitive and intelligent and surprisingly honest. — Elizabeth Hay

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. — Sam Harris

Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards. — Eustache Deschamps

What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom. — Naomi Klein

I'm pounding and kicking him and I'm all me and I'm kicking and kicking into the face that's crying and begging for mercy, kicking, kicking ... only for real, for cold ice real, it's not my foot smashing his face to a pulp, but my stick smashing the puck into the board, and it's not him crying, but me. — Jerry Spinelli

His hearts beat crazily in his chest, so laboured he thought it might burst. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

An honest brew makes its own friends. — John Molson

As they walked, he leaned low and close to her ear. Don't worry. I won't have anything dangerous for dinner, at least, not a weapon. — Cat Johnson

The priests of all these cults, the singers, shouters, prayers and exhorters of Bootstrap-lifting have as their distinguishing characteristic that they do very little lifting at their own bootstraps, and less at any other man's. Now and then you may see one bend and give a delicate tug, of a purely symbolical character: as when the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Bootstrap-lifters comes once a year to wash the feet of the poor; or when the Sunday-school Superintendent of the Baptist Bootstrap-lifters shakes the hand of one of his Colorado mine-slaves. But for the most part the priests and preachers of Bootstrap-lifting walk haughtily erect, many of them being so swollen with prosperity that they could not reach their bootstraps if they wanted to. Their role in life is to exhort other men to more vigorous efforts at self-elevation, that the agents of the Wholesale Pickpockets' Association may ply their immemorial role with less chance of interference. — Upton Sinclair

Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory ... these aren't just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz