Quotes About Comparison

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial, said Anne, rather scornfully. Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

the rose of love made the blossom of friendship small and pale by contrast

Nor did that intelligence provide him with an answer to his real problem. He knew submorons, many of them working for him, whose capacity to enjoy life was infinite compared to his.

Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

He's mad at me.""For what?""For not being like him."Eleanor looked dubious. "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?""Basically.

The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette?

If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.