3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
3 December 2020 Serj Tankian We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Moore There’s a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
3 December 2020 Madonna Ciccone Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.
3 December 2020 William Robertson Smith In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
3 December 2020 Huston Smith It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.
3 December 2020 Isaac Bashevis Singer Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
3 December 2020 Dean Koontz I think it’s perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
3 December 2020 James Lovelock I’m a scientist, not a theologian. I don’t know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody’s torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
3 December 2020 Hans Kung That means that every human being – without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
3 December 2020 Tom T. Hall I have my own religion. I’m sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
3 December 2020 Thomas More Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
3 December 2020 Andrew Greeley Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
3 December 2020 Harvey Milk The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
3 December 2020 Linda Chavez Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin 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.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
3 December 2020 Giancarlo Esposito I’m interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
3 December 2020 Jeane Kirkpatrick There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
3 December 2020 Paul Tournier Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz Today’s interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
3 December 2020 William Jennings Bryan If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
