601. In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. — Rupert Sheldrake
602. Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. — Swami Sivananda
603. Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. — Voltaire
604. First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. — Huston Smith
605. Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease. — Jerry Saltz
606. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. — Dave Barry
607. Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There’s nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch. — Larry Flynt
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609. I started listening to and playing other music in the ’90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again. — Dee Dee Ramone
611. We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief. — Jeff Miller
613. I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don’t believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself. — Tina Turner
615. If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We’re a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. — Madeleine Albright
616. There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion – Mormonism – has something way on the side that’s completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion. — Patrick Wilson
617. 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
618. In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. — Richard M. Nixon
620. The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. — John Paul Stevens
621. The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. — David Hume
622. 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
623. The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. — Robert Rainy
624. Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia
625. It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. — Helen Keller
626. Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. — Swami Sivananda
627. It’s not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I’m an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended. — Pete Sampras
628. I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion. — Oriana Fallaci
629. I’ve long been really intrigued with what is the… proper role of faith and religion in public life. — Gene Robinson
631. I’m just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone’s God-given right to think the way they think and that’s fine. That’s why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want. — Angie Harmon
633. My sense of religion is Einstein’s sense of relativity. I don’t believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus. — Mandy Patinkin
634. How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. — Yann Martel
635. 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
636. 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
637. I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. — Abraham Lincoln
638. Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul – politics does the same thing for the body. — Joyce Cary
639. Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. — Cliff Stearns
640. You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin
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641. There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. — Louis Kronenberger
642. Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. — Tony Campolo
643. If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. — Muhammad Iqbal
644. There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. — William Hazlitt
645. One of Dawkins’ major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion. — Ray Comfort
648. The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes. — James Randi
650. Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive. — E. O. Wilson
651. I’m a scientist, not a theologian. I don’t know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith. — James Lovelock
652. Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? — Michael Bloomberg
653. True religion is real living living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness. — Albert Einstein
656. It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them. — H. P. Blavatsky
658. Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. — Walter Savage Landor
659. I am a Westerner. We’re not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it’s like a mirror, saying, hey, can’t you see what’s here in your own religion, what are you, stupid? — Matthew Fox
662. We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society. — Jonathan Sacks
663. Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. — Alice Walker
664. I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. — Andrew Greeley
665. All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. — Honore de Balzac
666. The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn’t want. — Harry Browne
667. The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion – we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles. — Jim Ryun
668. People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. — Samuel Butler
669. Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
670. The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person’s standing in the political community. — Sandra Day O’Connor
672. Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes
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673. The women’s movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind. — Carol P. Christ
675. True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. — Henry Cabot Lodge
677. I’m a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven’t learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken. — Julianna Baggott
678. I think it’s been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. — P. J. O’Rourke
679. All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. — Benjamin Franklin
680. Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. — Christopher Lasch
681. Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. — John Comenius
683. Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. — Cliff Stearns
684. Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. — John Morley
685. Some people are that – more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. — Margaret Cho
687. The humanists’ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever. — David Bowie
688. Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation’s Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America’s flag and the ideals it represents. — Ron Lewis
691. The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand. — Howard Cosell
692. I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind. — Daisaku Ikeda
693. Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else. — Walter Koenig
694. I liked the humor of it, I’ve always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality. — Amber Tamblyn
695. Don’t be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own. — Peter Jennings
696. There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one. — Sophia Bush
699. But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. — Ernest Holmes
700. 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
701. In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. — Tom C. Clark
702. 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
703. But let’s just say, I’m Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. — Liam Neeson
704. Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. — Vaclav Klaus
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705. Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! — Thomas Huxley
706. 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
707. There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. — Walter Scott
709. Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. — Maimonides
710. I did an album a long time ago called ‘Replicas,’ which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it’s been a song here, a song there. It’s not really a constant theme. I’ve written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that. — Gary Numan
711. There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. — Elizabeth I
712. Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don’t know. But it’s natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion. — Lisa Bonet
715. Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
716. Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. — Bono
717. Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. — Madalyn Murray O’Hair
719. Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that’s got true religion, several of them. — Hal Holbrook
720. I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people’s lives because I’m a journalist. — Peter Jennings
721. Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
722. 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
723. Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. — Christopher Hitchens
724. Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. — Mahatma Gandhi
725. Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism. — David Eagleman
726. Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion… was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. — William Robertson Smith
727. How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? — Andrew Sullivan
728. It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. — Barack Obama
729. There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. — Dwight L. Moody
730. In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. — Paul Harris
731. 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
733. No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. — Jeremy Bentham
734. I think we have to believe in things we don’t see. That’s really important for all of us, whether it’s your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That’s pretty much what it’s about. — James Caan
735. 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
736. Most modern science fiction went to school on ‘Dune.’ Even ‘Harry Potter’ with its ‘boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny’ shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion. — Gary Ross
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737. What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. — Doris Lessing
738. Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. — B. R. Ambedkar
739. 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
741. People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. — Charles de Secondat
742. There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. — Cat Stevens
743. Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It’s not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. — Michelle Bachelet
744. 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
745. Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest – the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. — Alfred Russel Wallace
746. The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke
747. When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. — Vincent Van Gogh
748. When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. — Daniel Bell
749. For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties. — John C. Ransom
750. Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. — Mahatma Gandhi
751. Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. — Mitt Romney
752. Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. — Ernie Harwell
753. Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac
754. There’s a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world. — Tim Heidecker
755. If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. — Edmond de Goncourt
756. It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion. — Noah Webster
759. Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties. — Dalai Lama
760. Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. — Cyril Cusack
761. 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
762. More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. — Charles Eastman
763. 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
764. The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion. — Fred Allen
765. What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion. — Geraldine Ferraro
766. The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith. — Randall Terry
767. When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. — Joseph Lancaster
768. Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. — Karl Barth
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769. Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print. — Dave Barry
770. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. — Bill Maher
771. I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
774. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. — Noah Webster
776. 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
777. Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. — B. R. Ambedkar
778. One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. — Albert Einstein
779. The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck
780. 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
782. Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. — Karl Marx
783. Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. — Bodhidharma
784. The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. — Anita Diament
787. We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. — William Ralph Inge
788. Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. — Pope John Paul II
789. Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion’s imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks
790. If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. — Salman Rushdie
791. There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
792. 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
793. It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. — Ernestine Rose
794. When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. — Honore de Balzac
795. It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. — Barack Obama
796. It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that. — Prince
797. So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don’t live my life that way, and I don’t feel that’s what Baha’u’llah teaches. — Rainn Wilson
798. Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they’re two words which are both… different. In spelling. — Eddie Izzard
799. We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. — Serj Tankian
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