Quotes About Social

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."