992 private quotes tagged religion

“Politics in America is the binding secular religion.” — Theodore White

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“The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.” — Kristin Hersh

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“It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.” — Laurence Housman

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“But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.” — William Robertson Smith

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“In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.” — William Robertson Smith

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“Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.” — John Desmond Bernal

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“Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.” — William Robertson Smith

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“The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.” — William Robertson Smith

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“Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.” — Joyce Cary

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“I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.” — Laurence Housman

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“I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.” — Ken Follet

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“Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.” — Thurston Moore

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“There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.” — Emily Greene Balch

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“The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.” — Lytton Strachey

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“In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.” — William Robertson Smith

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“We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.” — William Robertson Smith

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“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

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“So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.” — Thomas Keneally

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“It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.” — Norma McCorvey

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“I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.” — Louise Mensch

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“The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.” — James Larkin

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“The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.” — Lamar S. Smith

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“I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.” — Anjelica Huston

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“I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.” — Gene Robinson

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“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

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