Quote by Laurence Housman
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodox

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman

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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. – Laurence Housman

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Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. – Laurence Housman

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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony. – Laurence Housman

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Religion is run by thought police. Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Dont ask questions. Go die for your country. The spirituality says, Okay, you can die for your country, but know what youre doing while youre doing it. – Tommy Chong

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Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. – John Comenius

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In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. – Hillary Clinton

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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of lifes wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. – Herman Hesse

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