Quotes About Cynical Religion

#1. Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?

Rajneesh

#2. It's YOUR journey. Ask yourself who you are, where you want to go, and how you'd like to get there. Graciously accept advice from everyone, but don't look left and right and wonder why you're not taking the path of your peers. Enjoy the path you're on and make the most of it. Carpe College!

Michael Metzler

#3. I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Peter Jennings

#4. Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

Nikki Giovanni

#5. We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

Kay Hagan

#6. When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

James A. Baldwin

#7. Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion.

Raja Shehadeh

#8. What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say.
Anonymous

Mike Addington

#9. On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

James Blunt

#10. Ah, Hollywood. One day, you and I will play Operation. And I'll be the drunk, mad doctor with the hedge trimmer & you will wear the straps

Warren Ellis

#11. My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

Robbie Williams

#12. He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding.

J.M. Barrie

#13. That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.

Mike Carey

#14. I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

Jeremy Renner

#15. The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. In those times I can't seem to find God, I rest in the assurance that He knows how to find me.

Neva Coyle

#17. Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test ... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

Guy Kawasaki

#18. The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

Roy Blunt

#19. The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#20. The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

Jasper Fforde