3 December 2020 Charles Eastman In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit’s foot of their particular religion. You don’t really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
3 December 2020 Emily Greene Balch There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
3 December 2020 Hosea Ballou Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.
3 December 2020 Alfred de Vigny But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
3 December 2020 Taslima Nasrin Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
3 December 2020 Madalyn Murray O'Hair Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it that’s my religion.
3 December 2020 Mohammed Naguib Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
3 December 2020 David Cronenberg 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
3 December 2020 Lionel Blue The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
3 December 2020 William Robertson Smith Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion… was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
3 December 2020 Amber Tamblyn I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person’s God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don’t believe in God.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We’re a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
3 December 2020 Julian Casablancas Religion is never the problem it’s the people who use it to gain power.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
3 December 2020 Larry Flynt Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There’s nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
3 December 2020 Ken Kesey The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn’t pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
