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religious peculiar charity
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature. Charles Caleb Colton
religious war ambition
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.
religious struggle blessed
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy! Charles Dickens
religious hallucinations apes
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. Charles Stross
religious children civilization
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
religious college pigs
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?
religious hype world
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. Charles Stanley
religious jesus thinking
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
religious teaching men
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.
despotism tyranny can-do
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot. Alexis de Tocqueville
despotism cracked
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be. Arabella Weir
despotism submit
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. William Floyd
despotism extremes moderate neither
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Alexander Hamilton
despotism ends unlimited
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism. Fyodor Dostoevsky
despotism history incredible national throwing tyranny
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride. Mike Crapo
despotism formidable
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. Georg C. Lichtenberg
despotism
Fear must rule in a despotism. Lajos Kossuth
despotism states despots
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many. Max Stirner
nations
We are a European nation - must stay one. David Miliband
nations
Happy is the nation without a history. Cesare Beccaria
nations
I'm a one-nation Tory. Boris Johnson
nations
When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself. Abdul Kalam
nations
Politics is history in the making. Adolf Hitler
nations
There is no such thing as the United Nations. John Bolton
nations
There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario.
nations
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
nations people
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. Jean-Jacques Rousseau