#cult

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. ↗

— Peter Davison

#contact #difficult #emotions #own #people

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bomb #brains #culture #deep #deep space

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#difficult #explain #improbable #more #nature

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#environment #exists #form #god #high

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#culture #cultures #ends #essentially #her

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#bound #christianity #culture #east #human

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#always #been #civilization #culture #doubt

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#cabinet #candidates #difficult #efficiently #electorate