Famous Quotes
- 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
- Michelle Malkin on Religion
- A cult is a religion with no political power.
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
- Joseph Ratzinger on Religion
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
- Francis Bacon on Religion
- A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
- Christy Turlington on Religion
- A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
- Christopher Hitchens on Religion
- A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Religion
- A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
- E. W. Howe on Religion
- A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
- B. R. Ambedkar on Religion
- A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Religion
- A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
- Jeremy Taylor on Religion
- A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Religion
- A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Religion
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
- A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
- Richard Dawkins on Religion
- Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
- Christopher Lasch on Religion
- After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
- Stephen Harper on Religion
- After all, is football a game or a religion?
- Howard Cosell on Religion
- After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
- Karen Armstrong on Religion
- After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
- John D. Rockefeller on Religion
- Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- C. S. Lewis on Religion
- All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.
- Maria Monk on Religion
- All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
- Harvey Cox on Religion
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Honore De Balzac on Religion
- All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
- Beatrix Potter on Religion
- All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
- John Shelby Spong on Religion
- All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Religion
- All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
- Richard Le Gallienne on Religion
- All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
- Abbas Kiarostami on Religion
- All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
- Ulrich Beck on Religion
- All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
- Abdurrahman Wahid on Religion
- All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
- Benjamin Franklin on Religion
- Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
- Nicole Scherzinger on Religion
- Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
- Ernest Istook on Religion
- Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.
- Benjamin Whichcote on Religion
- And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
- James Madison on Religion
- And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
- Bernice Johnson Reagon on Religion
- And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
- Mitt Romney on Religion
- And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
- Michael Berryman on Religion
- And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
- Chaim Potok on Religion
- And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
- Toni Cade Bambara on Religion
- Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
- Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
- Thomas Paine on Religion
- Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.
- David Cronenberg on Religion
- Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
- Josh McDowell on Religion
- Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
- Clive Bell on Religion
- As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Religion
- As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
- Stephen Harper on Religion
- As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
- Jon Meacham on Religion
- As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
- Christopher Dawson on Religion
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