992 private quotes tagged religion

“I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.”— George W. Bush

“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.”— Alexander Hamilton

“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.”— Doug Coupland

“We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.”— Duane Chapman

“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.”— John Cornyn

“I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.”— Rick Warren

“These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.”— Van Morrison

“Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'”— Prince

“The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.”— Christopher Lasch

“Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.”— Jon Meacham

“I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.”— Tony Blair

“Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.”— Talib Kweli

“When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.”— Karen Armstrong

“The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”— Jerry Falwell

“There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.”— Robert Griffin III

“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”— Wendell Phillips

“Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.”— Anita Roddick

“Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.”— Paul Davies

“As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.”— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.”— Christopher Dawson

“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.”— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”— Robert A. Heinlein

“Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.”— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.”— Tony Campolo