“The Word equals the book or, holy scripture. That is religion.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats (Simon & Schuster, 1997)
“The Word equals the book or, holy scripture. That is religion.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher
Book 1, p. 7
Cosmotheoros (1695; publ. 1698)
“There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality.”
Anthony Trollope book The Duke's Children
Source: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 48
Context: "I think it is so glorious," said the American. "There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty."
William Arthur (minister) (1819–1901) Wesleyan Methodist minister and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 317.
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Variant: Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are... but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.