Bellah Quotes

#1. While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#2. The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#3. Winners run through the finish line. End your day with passion and enthusiasm.

Butch Bellah

#4. The sales process should be as natural and fluid as a well choreographed dance.

Butch Bellah

#5. If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.

Ani DiFranco

#6. Madoc thought I was dirt under his shoe. Screw him.

Penelope Douglas

#7. In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

David Bohm

#8. If you change your habits, you change your results.

Butch Bellah

#9. It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#10. Someone has to be the best; the champion; the winner. Why not you?

Butch Bellah

#11. We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#12. You can look at the situation and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents.

Jack Welch

#13. For limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#14. Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#15. However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#16. That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#17. If you're as good as you're going to be, life's as good as it's going to get.

Butch Bellah

#18. The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#19. The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

John Acton

#20. Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontogeny repeats phylogeny, because children go through something like the same thing.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#21. If coffee is for closers, gold is for prospectors.

Butch Bellah

#22. The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#23. Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Luigi Pirandello

#24. The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#25. We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#26. We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning ...

Robert Neelly Bellah

#27. I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.

Solange Knowles

#28. What is "martinizing" and why does it only take one hour?

Bill Maher

#29. At wuntz? What HE do?
What HE do? Who do?
Wuntz do hoo doo? How do he do hoo doo?
Once do who do? What? What!? To wit, WHAT.

Walt Kelly

#30. If we let fear control our decision making we always make the wrong decision.

Butch Bellah