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#phenomenon

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Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.


Azar Nafisi


#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.


Richard John Neuhaus


#both #evil #good #good and evil #human

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.


William Blum


#citizenry #convinced #many #morally #murder

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.


Oriana Fallaci


#comes #despotic #elected #general #hateful

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.


Karl Von Clausewitz


#different #different means #independent #means #phenomenon

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.


Carlisle Floyd


#american #europe #hear #here #i

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.


Paul Harris


#been #consequence #frontier #indiscriminate #lawlessness

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.


Edmund Husserl


#century #claims #clarified #concept #deal

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?


John Keegan


#does #extraordinary #gone #happen #how

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.


Wim Wenders


#phenomenon #worldwide






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