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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Quotes by Wendell Willkie

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Quotes by Vera Farmiga

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

Quotes by Tariq Ali

What fun is life if it's taken so seriously, and what fun is yoga and the search for enlightenment if we are tight, tense, and clenched up from the inside out?

Quotes by Tara Stiles

In the Sixties, there were no guidebooks to Asia, at least none that suited young shoestring travelers. No one on the hippie highway carried a copy of Fodor's 'Islamic Asia.' The route to spiritual enlightenment wasn't revealed in the pages of the latest Baedeker. Intrepids were on a journey of spontaneity and reinvention.

Quotes by Rory MacLean

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Quotes by Robert Bork

We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.

Quotes by Rhys Ifans

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Quotes by Michael Polanyi

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

Quotes by Martin Filler

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Quotes by M. H. Abrams

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Quotes by Lao Tzu

My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

Quotes by Kailash Kher

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

Quotes by John Boehner

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Quotes by Jimmy Wales

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Quotes by Jan Peter Balkenende

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Quotes by Idries Shah

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Quotes by Elon Musk

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

Quotes by David Hockney

The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the world has ever seen.

Quotes by David Brin

I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.

Quotes by Charles Jencks

I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.

Quotes by Brigitte Macron

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Quotes by Bodhidharma

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Quotes by Bill Richardson

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

Quotes by Bill Bailey

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

Quotes by Ben Domenech

Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.

Quotes by Ben Domenech

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