"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage"
- Peggy Noonan
About this Quote
This quote by Peggy Noonan talks to the generational shift in mindsets towards religious beliefs and existentialism. She suggests that her generation, when confronted with the option between faith and existential anguish, selected cannabis as a way to cope with the unpredictability of life. This recommends that her generation was trying to find an escape from the hard questions of life, and cannabis provided a way to do that. Now, nevertheless, her generation is in a various phase, where they are relying on Cabernet as a way to deal with the exact same questions. This suggests that her generation is now searching for a more fully grown method to handle the tough questions of life, which Cabernet supplies a more sophisticated method to do that.
This quote is written / told by Peggy Noonan somewhere between September 7, 1950 and today. She was a famous Writer from USA.
The author also have 17 other quotes.
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"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory"
"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself"
"I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions"
"I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way"
"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation"
"What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small"
