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Separation Quotes - Page 2

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

Interview with Gwen Ifill on "PBS Flashpoints USA" (2004), as quoted in "Here Are Some Pretty Wild Things Roy Moore Has Said Over The Years" by Joanna Purpich, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2017.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.8118, e-artnow

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

'Lettres á ses commettans' (2nd series) 5 January 1793; in A. Cobban 'Aspects of the French Revolution' (1968)

The fear of separation is all that unites.

"Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.284

What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

"Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38". The U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 4, 1985.