The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
quote by Ulrich Beck
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
We talk about a secular state in India. It is perhaps not very easy even to find a good word in Hindi for "secular". Some people think it means something opposed to religion. That obviously is not correct. What it means is that it is state which honours all faiths equally and gives them equal opportunities; that, as a state, it does not allow itself to be attached to one faith or religion, which then becomes the state religion.
quote by Jawaharlal Nehru
Submitted by anonym
Vote! | Copy!
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
quote by Ulrich Beck
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
quote by Karen Armstrong
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.
quote by David Kirk
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
quote by Theodore Bikel
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
quote by David Rockefeller
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
quote by Robert Bork
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
quote by Hugh Kingsmill
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Love
Love, the most painful of emotions
Everyone feels love but to lose love is torment
To find out that someone you love does care about you cuts right into the soul
Love is dangerous
It can lead us to do many things
Love can also be a blessing it can help us find our hope
Love is important
It is something we as humans need
To not love is to not be human
Love is an special bond
It overcomes many a boundary
It overcomes age, race, religion
There is nothing that love cannot
But I feel that is not being respected
People are throwing it away
Love can hurt more than words can describe so be careful with it.
Love is powerful.
poem by Rachel Branscombe
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
quote by Theodore White
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
quote by Ivan Illich
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Wasteland
Out into the wasteland
Out into the wasteland
No religion
No religion, no religion at all
No religion
No religion, no religion at all
No religion, no religion at all
No religion
No religion, no religion at all
No religion
No religion at all
No religion
Emissionary man amongst the heathen
Cant you see a modern primitive
I came back, Im gonna find,
Im gonna give religion
When there was, no religion at all
Im outta the wasteland
Im into this head man
Im outta the wasteland
No religion at all
Im outta the wasteland
Im into this head man
Im outta the wasteland
No religion, no religion at all
Theres a man in need of resurrection
(no religion)
Cant you see a modern primitive
(no religion)
But Im a man I need my love and
Freedom (no religion)
When there was no freedom at all
Im outta the wasteland
Im into this head man
Im outta the wasteland
No religion at all
Im outta the wasteland
Im into this head man
Im outta the wasteland
No religion, no religion at all
No religion
No religion at all
No religion
No religion at all
In vr land
The future of fun
Tell me what to do
In vr law
Computer crime
Um, so sublime
A fantasy scene
In my machine
Give me secret of life
Let me know, yeah, what I am
And you know that I could get
Outta the wasteland
Im into this head man
Im outta the wasteland
No religion at all
Im outta the wasteland
Im into this head man
Im outta the wasteland
No religion, no religion at all
Im outta the wasteland
So far from the the deadland
Ow, Im outta the wasteland
No religion, no religion yeah
Im outta the wasteland
So far from the the deadland
Yeah, Im outta the wasteland
No religion, no religion at all
No religion, no religion at all
No religion
No religion, no religion at all
No religion
No religion, no religion at all
No religion
No religion, no religion at all
No religion at all
No religion at all
No religion
song performed by by Billy Idol
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle in In Stobaeus, Florilegium
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
He who overcomes his passions overcomes his greatest enemies.
The basic needs
If you don’t have one
Wonder if you come
When you don’t come home,
It is a basic need.
If you don’t have one
Listen to the feelings
You want to share with,
It is a basic need.
If you don’t have one
Attend you away
In case you fall sick,
It is a basic need.
Food, clothes, shelter
Alone aren’t the basic needs.
22.08.2008
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The Basic Law Of Survival
when you are so hungry
hungrier than a dog
who cares about the cleanliness of the food
that is available for your taking?
when you are too tired
you do not mind what place is it that sleep takes you
you just dropp dead
and snore
in the most basic instincts
man can be anything
in the worst form of our emptiness
whatever is it that fills us for the meantime
we shall take in
we do not bother if it comes from God anymore
heaven and hell become nothing in the making
it is the basic law of survival
religion, morality, ethical standards
do not matter.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
quote by Henry Van Dyke
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!