Famous Quotes
- As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
- Pierre Beaumarchais on Religion
- As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
- Juliana Hatfield on Religion
- As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
- Annie Dillard on Religion
- As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
- George Orwell on Religion
- At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
- Booker T. Washington on Religion
- Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
- Jon Meacham on Religion
- Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
- Rupert Sheldrake on Religion
- Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
- Ernie Harwell on Religion
- Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
- Azar Nafisi on Religion
- Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
- Madonna Ciccone on Religion
- Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
- Carol P. Christ on Religion
- Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
- Courtney Love on Religion
- Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
- Moustapha Akkad on Religion
- Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Religion
- Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.
- Richard Gere on Religion
- Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
- Lisa Bonet on Religion
- Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
- Joyce Carol Oates on Religion
- Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
- Thurston Moore on Religion
- But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes on Religion
- But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
- Javier Bardem on Religion
- But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
- Tony Blair on Religion
- But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
- Alfred De Vigny on Religion
- But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
- Liam Neeson on Religion
- But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.
- John Podhoretz on Religion
- But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
- William Robertson Smith on Religion
- Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
- Madonna Ciccone on Religion
- Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
- Mary Astell on Religion
- Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
- Kenneth Scott Latourette on Religion
- Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
- Bear Grylls on Religion
- Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
- Kenneth Scott Latourette on Religion
- Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
- Ralph W. Sockman on Religion
- Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
- Alfred Russel Wallace on Religion
- Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
- Lance Loud on Religion
- Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
- Billy Graham on Religion
- Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
- David Miliband on Religion
- Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
- H. L. Mencken on Religion
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
- Karen Armstrong on Religion
- Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
- Sydney Schanberg on Religion
- Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
- Dalai Lama on Religion
- Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
- Gertrude Stein on Religion
- Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
- Morris Raphael Cohen on Religion
- Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
- Flora Lewis on Religion
- Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
- Thomas Jefferson on Religion
- Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
- Wendell Phillips on Religion
- Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
- Jurgen Habermas on Religion
- Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
- Denis Diderot on Religion
- Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
- Gary Locke on Religion
- Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
- Maimonides on Religion
- Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
- Charles De Secondat on Religion
- Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
- Peter Jennings on Religion
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