Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [341-360] of 495 Religion quotesReligion QuotesReligion Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.~ John Stuart Mill The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.~ Arthur Miller There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.~ John Milton Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.~ The Mishnah Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.~ Ashley Montague You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.~ John Viscount Morley When it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.~ John Viscount Morley Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims: they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of betterment.~ Lance Morrow Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.~ Malcolm Muggeridge It is important therefore that in these schools the precepts of morality and religion should be inculcated, and habits of subordination and obedience formed. One of the greatest blessings which the State can confer upon her children is to instill into their minds at an early period moral and religious truths. ... Thousands of unfortunate children are growing up in perfect ignorance of their moral and religious duties. Their parents equally unfortunate know not how to instruct them, and have not the opportunity or ability of placing them under the care of those who could give them instruction. The State, in the warmth of her affection and solicitude for their welfare, must take charge of those children and place them in schools where their minds can be enlightened and their hearts can be trained to virtue.~ Archibald D. Murphey The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.~ Benito Mussolini Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.~ Friedrich Nietzsche Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.~ Friedrich Nietzsche In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.~ Friedrich Nietzsche Belief means not wanting to know what is true.~ Friedrich Nietzsche It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. ... it does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.~ Albert Jay Nock In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.~ Kathleen Norris Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.~ Northwest Ordinance, Article III, 1787 The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.~ Charles Eliot Norton We are human and our lot is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.~ Novalis Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print