Religion quotes

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

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.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

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.

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.