Top 1200 Secular Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.

I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic. Of course I am speaking now of society and not of the State.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

I have been with the Congress because I believe in a secular ideology.

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

I feel it is the believers who are most dangerous for the secular framework of a nation.

I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.

In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as a whole, not merely a part of it, that must survive. This is the indigenous understanding. It is the understanding in a global sense. We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.

A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

I believe in all the secular values that Indian democracy is famous for.

The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

Iraq's always been very secular.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.

I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

The more you become a part of society, the less and less you are an individual, the less and less you are spontaneous - because the very membership in the society will not allow you to be spontaneous. You will have to follow the rules of the game. If you enter a society, you accept to follow those rules that the society is playing, or has decided to play.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

AAP does secular politics.

Secular humanism debases the human.

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.

I come from a secular background.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.