Properly applied, religious conviction can be a force for good, encouraging charity and compassion and reflection; or it can be used to dominate and terrorize, to force compliance with antiquated and barbaric rules.
“So perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“For the poor man, the immigrant, the homeless veteran living under a bridge, to be treated under the law the same as the rich man, the scion, the connected political appointee is the greatest privilege of being a United States citizen. It is what all people, everywhere, aspire to: the fundamental dignity of equality. When you live somewhere it doesn’t exist, it is all you yearn for.”
― An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
― An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
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