Rajneesh Quotes

The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

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• Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Fly
  • New
  • New York

• Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Society
  • Expression
  • Last

• I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Society
  • Always
  • Honor

• Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Cancer

• I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Think
  • Society
  • Amazing

• We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Society
  • Free

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Society
  • Law

• Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Society
  • Daily
  • Commitment

• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Down

• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Horse
  • Fly

• Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Islam

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

  

  Mahavira
  • Society
  • Same
  • Wealth

• The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  

  Olof Palme
  • People
  • Society
  • Democracy

• I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Development

• Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Greatness

• 'The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• Whenever some kind of mass shooting or any other kind of violent activity takes place, we kind of hold our breath until we are sure that no Muslim was involved, because we know that these incidents will be treated differently if a Muslim is involved versus if somebody of another background is involved.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Place

• The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Society
  • Fly