3 December 2020 Kenneth Robert Livingstone I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people – not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
3 December 2020 Lance Loud Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
3 December 2020 Lionel Blue For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
3 December 2020 Ruth St. Denis Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
3 December 2020 Cyril Cusack Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it’s too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
3 December 2020 James Madison 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.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
3 December 2020 Sean O'Casey There’s no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
3 December 2020 Dennis Prager The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced – the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens 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.
3 December 2020 Michelle Bachelet Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It’s not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
3 December 2020 Robert Griffin III There’s a couple things you don’t talk about in life, and that’s race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don’t talk about politics at all.
3 December 2020 Lord Byron There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
3 December 2020 Rupert Sheldrake In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
3 December 2020 Josh McDowell Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That’s a unique claim in the literature of religion.
3 December 2020 Alfred Russel Wallace Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest – the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
3 December 2020 Christopher Dawson 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.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
3 December 2020 Ezra Pound Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
3 December 2020 Pat Boone So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don’t want to hear any of that.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
