Media And Religion Quotes

#1. The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.

Clay Shirky

#2. We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.

Regina Brett

#3. I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.

Marilyn Manson

#4. These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Van Morrison

#5. I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

James Norton

#7. Online affiliation with good causes is good netiquette. Stand for something!

David Chiles

#8. My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

Kate Clinton

#9. Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

Robin R. Meyers

#10. Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. ... In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

Antonio Gramsci

#11. The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

Bruce L. Shelley

#12. The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. But plausibility itself, in my view, is a tremendous step forward as we continue to marshal the courage to live meaningful lives in a universe that likely came into existence, and may fade out of existence, without purpose, and certainly without us at its center.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#14. You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to 'love thy neighbor,' connecting us with random strangers and 'friends' from distant lands.

Gemini Adams

#15. Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.

Eduardo Galeano

#16. Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.

Paul Copan

#17. To bring a New Message, not only on Social Media,
requires silence and peace.
Amen,
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 2, 2016

Petra Hermans

#18. Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.

Alain De Botton

#19. A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking.

Barack Obama

#21. A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

Anthony Weiner

#22. The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Arthur C. Clarke

#23. Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

Janusz Korczak

#24. It disturbs me mostly ... is the willful, deliberate denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when all the record (shows) it is not toxic, ... is safe, ... and is effective.

Luther L. Bohanon

#25. They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questions on the basis of what might be sensational if it just happened to be true.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#26. Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

Seth Godin

#27. My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Bill Keller

#28. Operate your day-to-day business as if bad times are always here, which is a great precaution.

Donald J. Trump

#29. One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that 'they are mine...they are mine'.

Dada Bhagwan

#30. Will the words end, I ask
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity.

Jacqueline Woodson

#31. Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.

Dennis Prager

#32. I cannot speak truth without poetry, because truth is beauty.

Bryant McGill

#33. For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved?
With all due respect.
According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get.

Chuck Palahniuk

#34. Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of state-run Arab media and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them.

Victor Davis Hanson

#35. What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

Zach Anner

#36. God didn't call you to be a failure. He called you to be a success

Sunday Adelaja

#37. I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

Martin Parr

#38. If I want religion, I know where to look for it - and if for example I don't want it, then why should it be forced on me in media and public spaces?

Christina Engela