Top 1200 Secular Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

I think Islam, for me, helped me see how similar we all are. If my views are not traditional it's because of being raised in American society. Things that are taboo in an Islamic society are magnified in this society: drinking, extramarital affairs, all kinds of stuff like that. I have to apply the human aspect of all our culture dictates . . .

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

I have always had a serious political career in mind and my secular ideology matches with that of the Congress.

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.

At the end of the day, if millions of people come together and say, we are not going to be a xenophobic society, we are not going to be throwing millions of Latinos out of this country, we are not going to be a racist society, we're not going to be a sexist society, we will prevail.

Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

India is a secular nation and believers of all religions and atheists have a place in this country.

If you want to practice Islam in the inconsequential, semi-secular sense, fine.

Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.

There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain the freedom of the mass media themselves. The free society is one where advertising and advertising agencies are likely to be in considerable demand, though it is true that even in a totally centralist society there would still be a need for organisations and people to have access to mass communication media.

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

Work is the way we contribute to society, part of a reciprocal social contract - the giving of our effort and our taking when in need - that holds our society together. We work, we build our society, and we share in its prosperity.

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

Our country is secular and Kerala is one state where it plays out at its best.

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his own way-each one is unique.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.

Especially in a very secular world, we should always stress what is common in the Christian religion.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.