Top 1200 Secular Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

I am a secular rationalist Nationalist proud Indian who is inconvenient to both Hindu and Muslim communalists.

I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts."

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.

We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate.

Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking about!

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

We have left and right; religious and secular; Druse; ultra-Orthodox women. Unity is very important.

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.'

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the number of problems that society solves for its citizens. That means technological innovation is the source of all prosperity, but with every tech innovation, you also get disruption - ultimately, social and civic disruption.

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

That's part of the reason why we also need to focus on, how do I give to society, how do I participate in society, how do I make society a better place, because, by the way, it's good for me, but it's also good for all of us in the environment in which we live and work.

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil.

Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.

The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.

Society has always been the free man's greatest enemy. And the free man has been society's greatest friend. How did society treat Jesus, Socrates, Galileo, or Martin Luther King? Yet look what they have left behind.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect government out here which required the intervention of nobody, you would have destroyed the society. But by raising the individual ability of the persons in the society within the framework that they are able to view, raise their ability within the framework they are able to view, you would have achieved a marked advance for that society.

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

The majority of Jews are secular... the Nazis never checked if anyone was going to the synagogue or eating kosher.

Football is represented by a diverse society and within that diverse society men's football does not reflect the diverse society that we live in.

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.

What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

The Congress needs to consolidate its secular credentials. Its soft Hindutva approach would only help the BJP.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'