Allen Tate Quotes

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Allen Tate

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• Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• 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
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• 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.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Religion
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Black
  • Myself

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

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Simple
  • Religion
  • Kindness

• I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Never
  • Religion

• 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
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Religion
  • Search
  • Meaning

• As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Child
  • Values

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Why
  • Think
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Real
  • Me

• Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

  

  Will Durant
  • History
  • Religion
  • Civilization

• The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Example
  • Privilege
  • Russia

• Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Find
  • Taxes

• I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Proud
  • Never
  • Place

• Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Religion
  • Values
  • Technique