Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything. . . It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that. ' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of Ireland will that day be dead. While Ireland lives, the brain and the brawn of her manhood will strive to destroy the last vestige of British rule in her territory
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.
Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.
Those who are anti-God and anti-Christian in America have infiltrated the highest levels of the educational establishment. They have a philosophical commitment to eliminating any vestige of biblical Christianity from American thought and life. They are well-positioned, well-funded and well-connected. They are a very small minority in America, yet their level of commitment is rarely matched among Christians.
Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.
There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined to stamp out every vestige of belief in God, which they insist is not only "stupid" but "wicked. "
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
You don't have any vestige of democracy in this country. A report recently came out of Princeton University claiming that, of all the policies that have been made in the last thirty years, 95% of them were in the interest of the rich and had nothing to do with what people wanted - basic services, roads, all of that. They called it an oligarchy.
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
