Modern Religious Practitioners

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or religious:

    “The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied ... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    “... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)