A Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Christopher Hitchens

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Religion Servility Solipsism

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Christopher Hitchens
American - Author
April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.

Marianne Williamson

Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy

Max Lucado

Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.

Paul Ryan

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

Herbert Spencer

Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.

Marvin Bower

Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth. Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it. Fosters empathy and wonder.

Rachel Carson

I obviously invented Solipsism

Dean Cavanagh

A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.

Thomas Mann

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Arthur Phillips

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

Eugene Wigner

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

David Foster Wallace

What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.