Religion quotes

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.