William Loren Katz quotes

“If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending”
-- William Loren Katz

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“The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.”
-- William Loren Katz

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“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”

“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”

“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.”

Source : Arthur Edward Waite (2003). “Devil-Worship in France: With Diana Vaughn and the Question of Modern Palladism”, p.219, Weiser Books

“A movie is about human beings, about humanity.”

“It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.”

“No religion is higher than humanity”

“We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.”

Source : "Gun activist Adam Kokesh charged" By Laurie Ure, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2013.