Separation Quotes - Page 28

• Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

  Edward Kennedy

  Mean, Political, Church

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• Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.

  David Deida

  Enjoy, Stills

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• In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

  Antonio Gates

  Basketball, Firsts, Steps

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• Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

  Audre Lorde

  Order, Different, Pieces

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• Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be distant, because there will be derailment. We (Church) should cooperate with the government and the government should cooperate with us because we're serving the same people.

  Jaime Sin

  Government, People, Track

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• Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

  James Howell

  Real, Distance, Loss

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• Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again-or perhaps knowing that we won't.

  Luanne Rice

  Goodbye, Heart, Loss

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• The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Evil, Submission

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.432

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• I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

  John Guare

  Names, Venice, People

  "Six Degrees of Separation". www.imdb.com. December 8, 1993.

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• Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Goal, Enlightenment, Moments

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• A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Malick's movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he's an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Aliens, Film

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Couple, Together

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Distance, Heart, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.107, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Fighting, Thinking

  "Scalia Defends Keeping God, Religion in Public Square" by Valerie Richardson, www.washingtontimes.com. October 01, 2014.

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• Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.

  Alan Watts

  Strong, Love Is, Men

  Alan W. Watts (2012). “Nature, Man and Woman”, p.11, Vintage

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• Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Baptism, Stubborn

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• Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this principle is an effort to reduce society to its lowest common denominator.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Biblical, Law, Effort

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• But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Order, Morality, Progressive

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• There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

  W. A. Criswell

  Imagination, Church, Figments

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• The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.

  William O. Douglas

  Common Sense, Church, Doe

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• It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.

  William Rehnquist

  Wall, Years, Decision

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• If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.

  Thomas Woods

  Government, Kentucky, Virginia

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• The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State....Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other - hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly....The state may not establish a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.

  William O. Douglas

  Believe, Church, Doe

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• Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

  James Cook

  Government, Crime, Worst

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• By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Communication, Ties, Unions

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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