Religion Quotes

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.
Azar Nafisi

Women, Control, Same

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
Daniel Berrigan

Faith, Person, Country

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn

Mother, Parent, Morality

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
Tom Tancredo

Small, Fighting, Here

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
Mary Augusta Ward

Life, Character, Spiritual

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
Clive Bell

Family, Men, Art

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
Andrew Greeley

Love, Good, God

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.
Hunter Parrish

Respect, Whole, Bible

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.
Colin Hanks

Time, Him, Wind

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.
James Kent

Strength, Government, Respect

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Linda Chavez

Freedom, Government, Belief

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.
Xu Zhimo

Thought, Point, Search

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
David Starr Jordan

Patriotism, Dog, Moon

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
James Randi

Different, Same, Around

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
Paul Bert

Leave, Behind, Morality

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
Billy Eckstine

Inside, Firm, Believer

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
Cliff Stearns

Justice, Last, Against

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
Jennifer Carpenter

Book, Read, Actually

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
David O. Selznick

Life, Another, Generation

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
Tom Baker

Life, Human, Off

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
Youssou N'Dour

Music, Culture, Ideas

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
Josh Gad

Good, Best, War

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
Godfrey Reggio

Life, Nature, Politics

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.
Pat Boone

Sometimes, Rules, Behavior

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
Robert Rainy

Serious, Making, High

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