2,964 quotes
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