Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

Benjamin E. Sasse

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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
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• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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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.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Religion

• Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • Right
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• Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Nobody
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• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
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• I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Believe
  • Religion
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• The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Assumption

• My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • God
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• The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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  • Ideal
  • Muslims

• I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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  • Question
  • Religion

• The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

  

  Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • God
  • Religion
  • Idea

• I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

  

  Arsene Wenger
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• Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Complicated

• I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Love
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• We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Religion
  • Killing
  • Believes