992 private quotes tagged religion

“If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.” — William Jennings Bryan

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“Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.” — Frank Murphy

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“A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.” — Joseph Ratzinger

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“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.” — Annie Dillard

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“There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.” — James Larkin

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“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.” — Malcolm X

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“Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.” — Alexis Carrel

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“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.” — Booker T. Washington

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“India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.” — Sri Aurobindo

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“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.” — Alfred de Vigny

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“I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.” — Jermaine Jackson

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“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.” — George Santayana

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“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.” — John Ruskin

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“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.” — Billy Graham

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“In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.” — George J. Mitchell

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“Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.” — Guy de Maupassant

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“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

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“But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.” — Tony Blair

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“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

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“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.” — John Ruskin

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“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

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