Quote by Ezra Pound
The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions.

The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. – Ezra Pound

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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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Heresy
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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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Exile
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. – Emily Carr

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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. – Neale Donald Walsch

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Religion

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Religion

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. – Woodrow Wilson

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Religion

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Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. – Emma Goldman

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