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We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.

King Hussein I

Statesman · Jordanian · 1935 – 1999

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Diplomat · American · 1926 – 2006

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

Dick Wolf

Producer · American · b. 1946

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.

Jerry Costello

Politician · American · b. 1949

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Eugenio Montale

Poet · Italian · 1896 – 1981

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Charles Spurgeon

Clergyman · British · 1834 – 1892

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

Logan P. Smith

Writer · American

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Author · American

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Walter Scott

Novelist · Scottish · 1771 – 1832

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

Robert Jackson

Statesman · American · 1892 – 1954

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader · American · 1929 – 1968

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Cesare Pavese

Poet · Italian · 1908 – 1950

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Vinoba Bhave

Educator · Indian · 1895 – 1982

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

John Nelson Darby

Clergyman · English · 1800 – 1882

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

John Buchan

Politician · Scottish · 1875 – 1940

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Joyce Brothers

Psychologist · American · b. 1928

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

Nikki Giovanni

Poet · American · b. 1943

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

Michael Newdow

Lawyer · American · b. 1953

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Dalai Lama

Leader · b. 1935

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Herbert Read

Poet · English

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Abdul Kalam

Statesman · Indian · b. 1931

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

Ella Maillart

Writer · Swiss · 1903 – 1997

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Laurence Sterne

Novelist · Irish · 1713 – 1768

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Leader · Indian · 1889 – 1964

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

William Ames

Philosopher · English · d. 1633

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

Ansel Adams

Photographer · American · 1902 – 1984

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Grover Cleveland

President · American · 1837 – 1908

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Dorothy Day

Activist · American · 1897 – 1980

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Nigella Lawson

Journalist · British · b. 1960

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman · Roman

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Edward R. Murrow

Journalist · American · 1908 – 1965

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Author · American · 1920 – 1994

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

George Herbert

Poet · British · 1593 – 1633

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

Soldier · American · 1880 – 1964

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Activist · American · 1815 – 1902

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Peter De Vries

Novelist · American · 1910 – 1993

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

Stefan Zweig

Writer · Austrian · 1881 – 1942

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Matt Blunt

Politician · American · b. 1970

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Clarence Darrow

Lawyer · American · 1857 – 1938

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

Lewis Mumford

Sociologist · American · 1895 – 1990

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Emily Greene Balch

Educator · American · 1867 – 1961

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Douglas Hurd

Politician · British · b. 1930

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

Charles Evans Hughes

Judge · American · 1862 – 1948

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Karl Marx

Philosopher · German · 1818 – 1883

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Bertrand Russell

Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

George Sand

Novelist · French · 1804 – 1876

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Jesse Jackson

Activist · American · b. 1941

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