Top 1200 Religious Wars Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

'Kitchen Wars' makes 'MasterChef' look like a walk in the park!

The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and religious and civil liberty. It's remarkable that, one-by-one, these strands of liberty are coming under fierce attack from the Left. And that's particularly ironic because "liberal" derives from a word which means "liberty," the free man as opposed to the slave. This liberalism which we're saddled with today isn't a real liberalism at all, but a gangster style of politics masquerading as liberalism.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews, a religious group. But if the religious group is the subject of the persecution based on their religion, it's perfectly OK for a First Amendment-bound society to emphasize their rescue, just as it is perfectly OK to emphasize the fact that many, if not all of the perpetrators of Islamic terrorism, come from countries with a history of supporting terrorism.

The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.

I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.

It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.

My favorite character in 'Star Wars' is Luke Skywalker, for sure.

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

In some of the classes, especially the introductory religion courses I took, the professors can veer into a particular strain of religious anti-intellectualism. Professors typically aren't given tenure at Liberty, so there's pressure to hew to the party line on religious and social issues. I didn't see a whole lot of my professors encouraging critical thinking among their students. Which isn't to say that students don't engage critical thinking skills at Liberty - just that it wasn't part of my classroom experience there.

People haven't seen the wars, in UFC, that I've had in Strikeforce and what I am capable of.

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.

All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.

I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.

So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale.

Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

I was a total sci-fi geek. Star Wars was my ultimate favorite.

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

For me, when I was growing up, everybody I knew was a 'Star Wars' kid.

I grew up with 'Star Wars' and was a massive fan of the original films.

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

I don't see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.

I saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.