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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is poli

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. – Huston Smith

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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. – Huston Smith

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It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. – Huston Smith

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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. – Saint Ambrose

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. – Baruch Spinoza

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