Revolution in the modern
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business. Garet Garrett
Idolatry
The modern artist must
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. Ezra Pound
The real trouble with
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Ezra Pound
Paul taught that religions
Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the … Read more
It is time to
It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry. Erich Fromm
Just as love for
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship. Erich Fromm
What I find interesting
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called ‘followers.’ Talk about false idolatry, right? Emilio Estevez
Self-love is an idolatry.
Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy. Elizabeth Hardwick
Go to the family
Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus. Edward Thomson
The valuable library of
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from … Read more