Quote by Karen Armstrong
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has b

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. – Karen Armstrong

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Every fundamentalist movement Ive studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. – Karen Armstrong

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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. – Karen Armstrong

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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. – Karen Armstrong

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Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. – Scott Adams

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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. – Quincy Jones

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Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society. – Judith Light

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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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