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To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
Whatever their occupation, almost all organization people feel their particular job is depression-proof.
— William H. Whyte
We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.
— William Grant Bangerter
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating
— Vine Deloria Jr.
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
If you would discover the supreme happiness of truth, you must break away from all ceremonies and ideological patterns.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.
— Clarence John Laughlin
I felt both parents at my side no matter what I did.
— Mike Lowell
If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
The marks human leave are too often scars
— John Green
Success supposes endeavour.
— Jane Austen
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
— William S. Burroughs
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.
— Robert Southey
Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?
— Vine Deloria Jr.
Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
We need to take turns - it's the kind thing to do.
— Lorraine Loria
Boys," I mutter tolerantly across the years to Saleem-at-twenty-four, "will be boys.
— Salman Rushdie
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply Ours.
— Vine Deloria Jr.