You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along."
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I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.John Shelby Spong
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
John Shelby Spong
Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
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Mother Nature is not sweet.
John Shelby Spong
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
John Shelby Spong
You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.
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