Malachy McCourt Quotes
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
Quotes to Explore
-
People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
-
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
-
I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
-
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
-
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
-
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
-
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
-
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
-
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
-
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
-
Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
-
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
-
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
-
I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
-
I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.
-
If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
-
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
-
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
-
I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.
-
Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
-
it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.
-
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
