Anthony de Mello Quotes
Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?' 'Of course there is,' said the Master. 'How would you describe it?' 'Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.'
Quotes to Explore
-
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-
I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
-
Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
-
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
-
The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
-
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
-
The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
-
A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
-
The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
-
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
-
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
-
Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
-
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
-
The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
-
I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
-
Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan.
-
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
-
I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
-
We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
-
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
-
Running a marathon is something I've always wanted to do.
-
I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.
-
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
-
Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?' 'Of course there is,' said the Master. 'How would you describe it?' 'Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.'
