992 private quotes tagged religion

“That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.” — Hans Kung

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“What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.” — Will Oldham

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“I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.” — Don Henley

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“My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.” — Tom T. Hall

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“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.” — Anna Sewell

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“People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.” — Zachary Levi

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“Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.” — Allen Tate

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“Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.” — Flora Lewis

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“Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.” — David Hilbert

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“In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.” — Johan Huizinga

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“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

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“I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.” — Tom T. Hall

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“Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.” — Tom T. Hall

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“Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.” — Robert Shea

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“Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.” — Tim Bishop

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“I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.” — Simon Callow

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“Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.” — Kenneth Scott Latourette

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“The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.” — Taslima Nasrin

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“To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.” — Robert Shea

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“We need a new religion.” — Lauren Hutton

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“We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.” — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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“Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.” — Michael Shermer

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“The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.” — Ernest Istook

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“In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.” — Carol P. Christ

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“Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.” — Danny Masterson

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