Quotes About Proselytizing

#1. There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

Eric Hoffer

#2. I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

John Irving

#3. The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

#4. For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Aldous Huxley

#5. I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe ... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

Penn Jillette

#6. We live in a culture that embraces pluralism and relativism, and we are told every (lay that proselytizing people or trying to convert people to Christianity is taboo. But the Lord Himself was sent by the Father to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10), and He passed the baton to His disciples.

R.C. Sproul

#7. If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.

Eric Hoffer

#8. Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.

Penn Jillette

#9. proselytizing unknown alphabets augments the range of rapacity in your nerves

Abdul Rehman

#10. Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

David Novak

#11. If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Tom Cruise

#12. The Beats inaugurated the long march through the moral territory of American culture. Who knows how many lives were blighted along the way as a result of their proselytizing on behalf of drugs and promiscuous sex?

Roger Kimball

#13. I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.

Robin Quivers

#14. People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

Susan Jacoby

#15. Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#16. We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#17. Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism

Wendy Doniger

#18. Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Thomas Carlyle

#19. The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the cocaine addict likes proselytizing; thus, instead of constituting a tangible warning, every victim of the drug acts as a source of infection.

Pitigrilli

#20. Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction.

Pope Francis

#21. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

Winston Churchill

#22. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

Eric Hoffer

#23. I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.

Jim Wallis

#24. If evangelizing, sharing Christ's spiritual gifts, is confused with proselytizing, then clarity of purpose and action will be resented. Evangelizing, however, calls the evangelizer to conversion while he or she is telling others who Christ is.

Francis George

#25. Torn between obsessive insecurity and proselytizing zeal, between the requirements of Europe and the temptations of Asia, the Russian Empire always had a role in the European equilibrium but was never emotionally a part of it.

Henry Kissinger

#26. A big issue for Muslims is when Christian evangelizing - telling people about the faith - becomes proselytizing, actively trying to convert. Some Muslims say Christian evangelizing seems like colonialism.

Bob Abernethy

#27. I'm less interested in proselytizing or a bigger tent for its own sake than in issues of human flourishing. What are the best conditions in which people live and flourish? It's more the, How do we get along? What does it mean for living now?

Karen L. King

#28. A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.

Amanda Steele

#29. Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

Dale Carnegie

#30. It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

George Bernard Shaw

#31. I'd like to be called Ransom Spunk or Spunk Ransom.

Robert Pattinson

#32. Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

Stephen Jay Gould

#33. Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

#34. Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#35. Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Henry A. Kissinger

#36. How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

Penn Jillette

#37. The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.

Cynthia Heimel

#38. Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.

Nick Cannon

#39. I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.

Kim Gordon

#40. The Jeep is the only true American sports car.

Enzo Ferrari