Quote by Kevin Smith
Havent two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught

Havent two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You cant convert people to anything – whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks. – Kevin Smith

Other quotes by Kevin Smith

Id see movies, comedies, and I loved Animal House, I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented. – Kevin Smith

Category:
movies
Read Quote

Theres something to be said for failing. Its not the failure you feel, its the failure that people project when something disappoints. Youre back to ground zero, where theres no expectations, and thats where I like to be. – Kevin Smith

Category:
Failure
Read Quote

I saw Richard Linklaters film Slacker for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope. – Kevin Smith

Category:
Birthday
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Religion
category

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Religion

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. – Robert Bork

Category:
Religion

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. – Mary Douglas

Category:
Religion

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. – Lamar S. Smith

Category:
Religion

Random Quotes

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. – John Dingell

Category:
Change

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority. – David Suzuki

Category:
Health

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes. – Peter Drucker

Category:
Leadership

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that cant sustain them. – David Attenborough

Category:
Future