Anne Royall Quotes
“Get two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.”
Quotes to Explore
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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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.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.
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I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.
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I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
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I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is any message in my books, I want it to be that it's okay to ask questions, and it's okay to come up with a belief system all your own. Teens who change their worldviews in the face of tremendous social pressure are heroes to me.
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Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
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Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
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Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?
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Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
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Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
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I love a garden and a book.
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“Get two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.”
