3 December 2020 Carter G. Woodson This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
3 December 2020 Lamar S. Smith The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
3 December 2020 Ian MacKaye I’m not a religious person, and I’m not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
3 December 2020 Gael Garcia Bernal I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
3 December 2020 Cat Stevens The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
3 December 2020 Colin Hanks Religion theme aside, most of the time I’m in some sort of comedy and I’m a straight man and it’s really just, let’s wind this guy up and see him explode.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
3 December 2020 Juliana Hatfield As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
3 December 2020 Tim Heidecker There’s a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
3 December 2020 Charley Pride I don’t care what the religion is called as far as I’m concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
3 December 2020 Anita Diament The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
3 December 2020 Cliff Stearns Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
3 December 2020 Barney Frank I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
3 December 2020 Bill Maher I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
3 December 2020 Trey Parker Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call ‘lightly religious.’ So I don’t buy the notion that we can’t laugh about religion in America.
3 December 2020 James Kent Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Lee I’m fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I’m not committed to any specific one.
3 December 2020 Stephen Harper As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
3 December 2020 Sela Ward I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
3 December 2020 Pope Shenouda III The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.
