3 December 2020 Tom Cruise If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, ‘He’s avoiding it.’ If I do talk about it, it becomes, ‘Oh, he’s proselytizing.’
3 December 2020 Nikki Haley I think that we are at a point in our country where we’re trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.
3 December 2020 Erykah Badu Personally, I don’t choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That’s between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
3 December 2020 Al Goldstein Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
3 December 2020 Walter Jon Williams When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where’s the harm? September 11th changed all that.
3 December 2020 James Randi The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes.
3 December 2020 Anita Brookner Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
3 December 2020 Ken Follet I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents’ religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
3 December 2020 Imelda Staunton I don’t feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan I don’t believe there’s any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
3 December 2020 Hal Holbrook Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that’s got true religion, several of them.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
3 December 2020 Billy Graham Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
3 December 2020 Albert Ellis For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
3 December 2020 Lemuel K. Washburn Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Lethem The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
