Ezra Pound Quotes

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

Ezra Pound

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• Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!

  

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• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  

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• I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

  

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• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  

  Ira Hayes
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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

  

  Eddie Campbell
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• My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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  • Country
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• Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
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• Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
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• Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

  

  Vanna Bonta
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• Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

  

  Edith Wharton
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• Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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• A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

  

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• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

  

  Bob Feller
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• Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

  

  Martin Luther
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• I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

  

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• There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

  

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• Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.

  

  Bob Altemeyer
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• Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Wisdom
  • Religion
  • Hero