992 private quotes tagged religion

“The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.” — Tori Amos

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“Religion leaves no room for human complexity.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.” — Dave Chappelle

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“Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.” — Pat Robertson

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“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.” — Havelock Ellis

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“All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.” — Ulrich Beck

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“My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.” — Art Linkletter

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“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.” — Joseph Campbell

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“The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?” — Tony Campolo

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“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.” — John Maynard Keynes

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

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“Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.” — Shirin Ebadi

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

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“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.” — Malcolm Muggeridge

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“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.” — Stephen Harper

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“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.” — Charles de Secondat

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“As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.” — Jon Meacham

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“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.” — Keanu Reeves

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“The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.” — Hugh Hefner

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“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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