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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 way communication works is changing. — Hubert Burda

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.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind. — Samuel Johnson

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. — Vine Deloria Jr.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work. — Cate Blanchett

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.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply Ours. — Vine Deloria Jr.

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. — Vine Deloria Jr.

A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.' — Petronius

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.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park. — Yoko Ono

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do. — Jonathan Zittrain

When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

This state is thus one of an excruciating overall sensitivity, patients being assaulted by sensory stimuli from their environment, or — Oliver Sacks

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.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality. — Harvey Cox