„Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim.“

„Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.“

—  Andrew Matthews British writer 1948

Origine: Happiness Now!

„There are no true and false religions, but rather all religions are true in their own way and degree. Each is one of the thousand paths to the One Eternal.“

—  Sri Aurobindo Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet 1872 - 1950

Indian Spirituality and Life (1919)
Contesto: To the Indian mind the least important part of religion is its dogma; the religious spirit matters, not the theological credo. On the contrary to the Western mind a fixed intellectual belief is the most important part of a cult; it is its core of meaning, it is the thing that distinguishes it from others. For it is its formulated beliefs that make it either a true or a false religion, according as it agrees or does not agree with the credo of its critic. This notion, however foolish and shallow, is a necessary consequence of the Western idea which falsely supposes that intellectual truth is the highest verity and, even, that there is no other. The Indian religious thinker knows that all the highest eternal verities are truths of the spirit. The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul's inner experience. Intellectual truth is only one of the doors to the outer precincts of the temple. And since intellectual truth turned towards the Infinite must be in its very nature many-sided and not narrowly one, the most varying intellectual beliefs can be equally true because they mirror different facets of the Infinite. However separated by intellectual distance, they still form so many side-entrances which admit the mind to some faint ray from a supreme Light. There are no true and false religions, but rather all religions are true in their own way and degree. Each is one of the thousand paths to the One Eternal.

„"The theme song states "YOU GOT THE POWER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE… YOU GOT THE POWER TO MAKE A CHANGE." Wow, thank you MTV, for making me feel empowered and independent, like only a multinational media conglomerate can."“

—  Maddox American internet writer 1978

I hate Cameron Diaz http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=trippin
The Best Page in the Universe

„Religion is a simplistic answer that society has created in order to make people feel better, but there is little evidence as to its validity. There are thousands of religions in the world, each with their own "correct" answers, and each contradicting each other. For now the most sensible explanation to me is that we are the result of a lucky combination of cosmic factors, we're the "mold" that has grown on this particular planet and in a universe as vast as ours, it's expected that somewhere this would happen.“

—  Andrew Sega musician from America 1975

„If you were not to be its victim, this book and body would amuse you with its arrogance. It would make you laugh. Because you were not its victim, you could feel no pain of betrayal.“

—  Peter Greenaway British film director 1942

From the eighth book, "The Book of the Seducer"
The Pillow Book

„You know you got it if it makes you feel good.“

—  Janis Joplin American singer and songwriter 1943 - 1970

"Piece of My Heart" (1968) written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
Misattributed

„Got enough guilt to start my own religion.“

—  Tori Amos American singer 1963

"Crucify".
Songs

„If I had to pick a religion, I'd pick Buddhism. Buddhism is a kindly religion. It says you got a chance… it's got humor, it's got wisdom, it says to be nice to each other. All the rest of them have gods that want to beat the crap out of you if you defy the rules.“

—  Harlan Ellison American writer 1934 - 2018

Interviewed by J. Michael Straczynski Clue book for the computer version of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream http://infidels.org/kiosk/author/harlan-ellison-207.html

„Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer“

—  Henry Lawson Australian writer and poet 1867 - 1922

„What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.“

—  David Foster Wallace American fiction writer and essayist 1962 - 2008

„Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you?“

—  Cassandra Clare, The City of Lost Souls

Origine: City of Lost Souls

„Religion has had a natural origin, like coal, and rock salt, and mountains, and river valleys, and everything else. It has been made in the laboratory of human feeling and imagination. The gods did not make men; men made the gods.“

—  J. Howard Moore 1862 - 1916

"The Source of Religion", International Socialist Review, Vol. 16, Iss. 12, Jun. 1916

„I'm not religious, but I believe in the ecstasy that art and religion can create in human beings, the ecstatic or the awe — as I like to call it, you know, "a-w-e" — that it makes people feel in a way that isn't their banal, everyday feel. That they go, "My God, it transformed me. My life changed."“

—  Julie Taymor American film and theatre director 1952

Academy of Achievement interview (2006)

„If I choose among you, you will feel hurt. But nature has its own way of choosing. Those who are not entitled to something, drop out by themselves.“

—  Sadhguru Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian 1957

Sadhguru: More Than a Life

„The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

National Prayer Breakfast http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/03/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast, , quoted in * 2011-02-03
Cathy Lynn
Grossman
Obama's prayer: 'To walk closer with God'
USA Today
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2011/02/obama-christian-prayer-breakfast-doubt/1
2012-11-07
2011

„You say you wake up
In the morning
Feeling used
Like a fallen angel
Tired and bruised
It's got you feeling
So insane
More dead than alive
Love's got you stained
On the inside“

—  Traci Lords American mainstream and pornographic actress, producer, film director, writer and singer 1968

Fallen Angel, written by Traci Lords, Ben Watkins, and Johann Bley
Song lyrics, 1000 Fires (1995)

„Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.“

—  Paul of Tarsus, libro First Epistle to the Thessalonians

1 Thessalonians 4:4-5 (as quoted in New Living Translation http://biblehub.com/nlt/1_thessalonians/4.htm)
First Epistle to the Thessalonians

„If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.“

—  Germaine Greer, libro The Female Eunuch

The Wicked Womb (p. 57)
The Female Eunuch (1970)

„You should never revile people who are satisfied with their own religion… Listen you disciples of Christ! I, solicitous of your own welfare, tell you this truthfully… Diminution of Hari’s religion, anger, cruelty, subversion of authority and dissensions among the populace would result from reviling the religion of others. Increase of God’s religion, contentment, gentleness, harmony between the ranks would result from praising all religions. For each person his own religion is best; the same religion would be perilous for another person.“

—  John Muir (indologist) Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist 1810 - 1882

Subaji Bapu, MataparIkshAsikshA, from his reply to John Muirs Matapariksha, Cited by R.F. Young and quoted from Goel, S. R. (2016). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 10. ISBN 9788185990354 https://web.archive.org/web/20120501043412/http://voiceofdharma.org/books/hhce/
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