Religion quotes

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

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.

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

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.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.